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Jay McInerney Quotes: A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
         

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.


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



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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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