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Way Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene…
- I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be…
- That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
- We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading…
- 'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an…
- When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead…
- happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself…
- Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had…
- Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can…
- There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
- A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread…
- The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist,…
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