"What he needed was to find fifty more……" — Jennifer Egan
"What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it."
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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 Fifty Quotes
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for…
— Margaret Atwood
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
— Lauren Bacall
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -…
— Bernard Baruch
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of…
— Carol Bellamy
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
— Tony Benn
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
— Josh Billings
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind…
— Kate Bosworth
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people…
— Jan Brewer
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think…
— Abdallah II
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The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers…
— Herman Cain
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