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Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Jennifer Egan

Birthname

Birthday: September 7, 1962

Death: September 7, 1962

Educated At: St John's College, University Of Cambridge, University Of Pennsylvania

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Novelist, Writer

Total quotes: 4

“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

“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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