"I know I'm famous and irresitible - a……" — Jennifer Egan
"I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me."
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109 Quotes by Jennifer Egan
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who…
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably…
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed…
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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
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Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love…
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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing…
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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in…
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took…
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the…
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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