Jay McInerney Quotes

• Creo que los hombres hablan con las mujeres para poder acostarse con ellas y las mujeres se acuestan con los hombres para poder hablar con ellos.

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  Love, Life, Witty

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2013

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• La capacidad de amistad es la forma que tiene Dios de disculparse por nuestras familias.

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  Friendship, Family, Inspiring

  Jay McInerney (2011). “The Last of the Savages”, p.3, Vintage

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• I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

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  Fall, Want, Falling Apart

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

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  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

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  Fear, Thinking, Eyelashes

  Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.28, Vintage

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• Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

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  Reading, Mean, Film

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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  Book, Interesting, Surprise

  "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Las cosas pasan, la gente cambia', es lo que dijo Amanda. Para ella eso lo cubría todo. Querías una explicación y un final que asignara la culpa y repartiera justicia. Pensaste en la violencia y pensaste en la reconciliación. Pero lo que te queda es una premonición de la forma en que tu vida se desvanecerá detrás de ti, como un libro que has leído demasiado rápido, dejando un rastro menguante de imágenes y emociones, hasta que todo lo que puedes recordar es un nombre.

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  Life, Book, Names

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.127, Vintage

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• Las botellas de vino no son como los cuadros. En algún momento hay que consumirlas. El objetivo en la vida es morir sin botellas de vino en la bodega. Beber tu última botella de vino e irte a dormir esa noche y no despertar.

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  Wine, Sleep, Night

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• I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

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  Writing, Thinking, Envy

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

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  Lying, Waste, Therapists

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• Tienes amigos que realmente se preocupan por ti y hablan el lenguaje del yo interior. Últimamente los evitas. Tu alma está tan desordenada como tu apartamento, y hasta que no puedas limpiarlo un poco no quieres invitar a nadie a entrar.

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  Ser, Alma, Cuidado

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.32, Vintage

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• I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.

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  Lectura, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

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  Hearing, Novel

  "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

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  Betrayed, Irony, Symbols

  Jay McInerney (2014). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.54, A&C Black

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• Tuve la suerte de sacarle mucho partido a mis vicios . . . La cuestión es no dejarse debilitar por los placeres. Quizá tenga genes afortunados o algo así, pero nunca he sido verdaderamente adicto a nada, salvo al placer en general.

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  Vices, Lucky, Pleasure

  " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

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  Odds, Long, Might

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

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  Writing, Sensible, Approach

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• 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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  Ideas, Worry, People

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• I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

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  World, Facts, University

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• What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.

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  Arte, Real, Gente

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Una modesta crítica de una época en la que un actor es el Presidente, en la que se pide opinión a las modelos de moda, en la que entrar en una discoteca se considera un logro humano importante.

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  Fashion, America, Achievement

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• There aren't many shy writers left.

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  Shy, Left

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• Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

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  Add, Taste, Moderation

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• Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

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  Stars, Successful, Certain

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