Jennifer Egan Quotes - Page 4

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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?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Caring, Experience

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.44, Anchor

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• I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

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  Ideas, Numbers, Training

  "Pulitzer Prize 2011: Winner Jennifer Egan On The Tedium Of Writing". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2011.

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

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Kissing, Poppies

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.28, Anchor

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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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  Summer, Father, Taken

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

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  Couple, Writing, Adventure

  "How 'the Goon Squad' came to be". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2011.

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• Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

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  Perfection, Problem, Clean

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.18, Anchor

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

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  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.

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  Pain, Differences, Numbers

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

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  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

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  Memories, Past, Thinking

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• But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by "identify," I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

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  Strong, Writing, Character

  "How 'the Goon Squad' came to be". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2011.

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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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  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• th blu nyt th stRs u can't c th hum tht nevr gOs awy

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• "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

  Jennifer Egan

  Sun, Mines

  "A Visit From the Goon Squad". Book by Jennifer Egan, June 8, 2010.

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

  Jennifer Egan

  Together, Happened

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.252, Anchor

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• The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

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  Dark, Blue, Sky

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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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.

  Jennifer Egan

  Perfection, Problem, Precision

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.18, Anchor

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• At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.

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  Father, Sleep, Night

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

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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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  Dirty, Hands, Talking

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• if thr r childrn thr mst be a fUtr rt?

  Jennifer Egan

  Ifs

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

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  Girl, Rocks, Idols

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

  Jennifer Egan

  Morning, Past, Hair

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

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  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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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.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Self, Lines

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.70, Anchor

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