"She'd risked everything, and here was the result:……" — Jennifer Egan
"She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life."
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109 Quotes by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site.
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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that…
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that…
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and…
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not…
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The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me…
— Lewis Black
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I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working…
— John Boehner
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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