"But this post-college world felt different from everything……" — Meg Wolitzer
"But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live."
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30 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer has 30 quotes on this site.
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The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until…
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I have never been much of a researcher
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Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.
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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse…
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The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like…
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People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to…
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You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
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While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed…
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at…
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