"Vinegar: that's what fear smells like." — Jennifer Egan

"Vinegar: that's what fear smells like."

— Jennifer Egan

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109 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who…
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably…
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the…
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed…
I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love…
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing…
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in…
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to… — Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the… — Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that… — Darren Aronofsky
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad

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