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Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Everyone
Lost
Find

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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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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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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
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Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
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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]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.
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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've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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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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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase meant to be--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.
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I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.
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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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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
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When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
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