Jennifer Egan Short Quotes

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

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He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

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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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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

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Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you...

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But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

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

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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 think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

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Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous.

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She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

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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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They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

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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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Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

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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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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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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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A swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

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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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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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And it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,

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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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The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

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