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Jennifer Egan Quotes

Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1962

Topics

Dying Years Without Pop Quite Feat

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

Hat Gentleman Lips You Hand Gone

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy

Power Man Diversity Poetry Arrogance

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Freedom Vote Will Bear Right Always

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom People Tyranny Ignorant Lies

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Bitterness Cancer Anything Object

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Game Thought Now Never Show Would

From an early age, I was very interested in all things fashion... and the change from tomboy to ultrafeminine glamour in old films. There was a Doris Day film I loved: 'Calamity Jane.'

Stella McCartney

Change Age Day Fashion Loved Early

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

Funny Comedy Dark I Can Know Old

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

Chris Kirkpatrick

School High School Short Legs High

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Go Without Leave Off

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Children Cares Many Felicity

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Sky Will Smell Rat Air See

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