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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.

Jay McInerney

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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
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Odds
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