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"I remember in my twenties feeling that certain people were real and certain people weren’t. […] For me, I think that feeling extended into adulthood when certain people got successful early, and I thought, Oh I get it, okay, so they’re real — and not understanding this incredibly important thing, which is everything keeps changing. […] I think I had a very schematic view of the world when I was younger. I really believed there were leaders and followers, winners and losers, real people and unreal people, and I feared I was in the losing side of all of those — those dichotomies. So no, I absolutely could not have [written Goon Squad], no way. Coming to New York and feeling like a struggling, broke temp, whereas other people — older people — had figured it out and were writing books, I didn’t feel like I would ultimately get to where they were."


-Jennifer Egan

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