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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“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.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Death, Desire, Attraction, Remembered, Art, Mystery
“We have some history together that hasn't happened yet.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Relationship, Future, Love
“A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.”
— Jennifer Egan, Black Box
Tagged: The Moment Between, Magazine, fiction, beauty, boats, Bodies, Cameras, Data, engineers
“People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.”
— Jennifer Egan, Black Box
Tagged: What We Imagine vs. Reality, Imagination Vs. Reality, We Look Different In Media, Magazine, fiction, beauty, boats, Bodies, Cameras, Data, engineers
“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, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Love, self control, Thoughts, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Art, Future of Art, Music, Digitization
“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Future, digital, Millenials, humanity
“Fear and excitement are sometimes indistinguishable.”
— Jennifer Egan, Black Box
Tagged: Fear, Excitement, Magazine, fiction, beauty, boats, Bodies, Cameras, Data, engineers
“Among the violent, there is always a plan for escape.”
— Jennifer Egan, Black Box
Tagged: Paranoia, The Desire To Escape, Magazine, fiction, beauty, boats, Bodies, Cameras, Data, engineers
“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: first lines of books
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