You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Jay McInerney
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

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More Quotes By Jay McInerney
  1. The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

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

  3. It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

  4. You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

  5. Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.

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