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Jay McInerney Quote: “Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”

51. “Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “There aren’t many shy writers left.”

52. “There aren’t many shy writers left.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.”

53. “The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “Great minds sink alike, right?”

54. “Great minds sink alike, right?”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.”

55. “The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “We’ve been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.”

56. “We’ve been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “Mine is not an autonomous imagination.”

57. “Mine is not an autonomous imagination.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I’m not like that.”

58. “There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I’m not like that.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.”

59. “If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational.”

60. “Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.”

61. “The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “There she is, as eligible a candidate as you’re likely to find this late in the game. The sexual equivalent of fast food.”

62. “There she is, as eligible a candidate as you’re likely to find this late in the game. The sexual equivalent of fast food.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “The candor was infectious. It spread back to the beginning of your life. You tried to tell her, as well as you could, what it was like being you. You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”

63. “The candor was infectious. It spread back to the beginning of your life. You tried to tell her, as well as you could, what it was like being you. You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “From the window, Luke looked out over the water towers of Fifth Avenue to the park, studying the senescence of the daylight, which seemed almost viscous, ready to coagulate – trying to register that perfect moment of transition from day to evening, that instant when the light, in dying, was most nearly itself.”

64. “From the window, Luke looked out over the water towers of Fifth Avenue to the park, studying the senescence of the daylight, which seemed almost viscous, ready to coagulate – trying to register that perfect moment of transition from day to evening, that instant when the light, in dying, was most nearly itself.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.”

65. “You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.”

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Jay McInerney Quote: “Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?”

66. “Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?”

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