"Most of the people I write about have……" — Jay McInerney
"Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world."
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52 Quotes by Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney has 52 quotes on this site.
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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can…
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He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
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You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them…
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You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop…
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Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers…
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A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for…
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Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt…
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers…
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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More Ambitious Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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