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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: white, new, black, you

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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: through, most, know, world
I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: story, writing, more, language
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: hearing, about, day, death
It's the cynics who never get married.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: get-married, get, who, never
You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.
— Jay McInerney
Tags: village, you, god, beautiful
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