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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Hundred
Five
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Business
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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
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Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.
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There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.
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What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.
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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 fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
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Sure, everything is ending, Jules said, but not yet.
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Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.
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Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.
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Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?
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[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.
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Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.
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No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.
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I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
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Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.
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Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
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I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
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That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.
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