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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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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
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I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.
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I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
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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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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
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When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
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Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas.
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Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.
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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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A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
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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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Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
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It's the cynics who never get married.
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I'm a romantic you have to be to marry four times.
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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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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
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