"Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased……" — Jennifer Egan
"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 no longer tolerate them."
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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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More Circumstances Quotes
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
— Neil Armstrong
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real…
— Christian Bale
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
— Dave Barry
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
— Joseph Addison
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If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other…
— Andrew Bernstein
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
— Tony Blair
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