Top 17 Tama Janowitz Quotes
#1. ...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.
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#3. I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.
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#4. Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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#5. I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
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#6. I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
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#7. Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.
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#8. Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.
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#9. Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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#10. I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story
so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.
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#11. I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.
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#12. Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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#13. On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
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#14. I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.
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#15. It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.
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#16. As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.
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#17. I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
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