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Jennifer Egan

  • Olga Ghas quoted2 years ago
    Thirty-three is still young enough to register as “young.”

    Registering as “young” is especially welcome to those who may not register as “young” much longer.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    When Chris was first assigned the task of scouring movies and TV shows for every possible stock element (“stockblocks”), and then cataloging and converting them into one algebraic system, he’d thought it impossible.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    Miranda Kline, who had mapped “the genome of human inclinations” almost thirty years ago and created algorithms for predicting behavior. She’d become famous for giving social media companies the means to monetize their business back when that was new, although she took no pride in it.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    Bix Bouton was a god in Chris’s world, but Chris secretly (very secretly) sided with the boomers who viewed Mandala’s “memorevolution” with existential horror.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    I am ALONE AND PEACEFUL and that combination is so unusual, it’s like meeting someone for the first time.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    Nights in the South of France are a strange, dark, piercing blue.
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    Knowing that you are one of hundreds should not diminish you.
    In the new heroism, the goal is to merge with something larger than yourself.
    In the new heroism, the goal is to throw off the scourge of self-involvement.
    In the new heroism, the goal is to renounce the modern fixation with being seen and recognized.
    In the new heroism, the goal is to dig beneath your shiny perso
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    accomplishing this goal, you will have helped to preserve American life as you know it
  • a burmistrovahas quoted2 years ago
    How can my friend describe his dry-cleaning problem if he is being surveilled from within?
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