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That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
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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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I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
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There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts that's what gets me the best material.
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Sure, everything is ending, Jules said, but not yet.
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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
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The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
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I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.
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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
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Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. Who's paying you? was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?
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I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, Did you have electricity, Mom? and I was like okay, enough, kid.
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'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.
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The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.
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It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
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I'm always happy, Sasha said. Sometimes I just forget.
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It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
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And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.
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