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Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
Jay McInerney
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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
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Hartford
Connecticut
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Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
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I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
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Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
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It's the cynics who never get married.
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
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Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
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You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.
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Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.
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Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
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Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.
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He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
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You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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