"The answers were maddeningly absentâ€”it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back."

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Source : Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.253, Anchor

Jennifer Egan

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“There aren't really rules for painting, but thereâ€™s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. Theyâ€™re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.”
“Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.”

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“People buy from people they trust and they trust people they like.”
“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”

Source : Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.148, Penguin UK
“Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.”

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“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”
“The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.”

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