“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan 34
Novelist, short story writer 1962Related quotes

“I don’t want to work away
Doing just what they all say”
But I Might Die Tonight
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

“I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.”
Variant: I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all
Source: Every Day

“I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.”

On the backlash he faced after writing a controversial article about sexual harassment in “White People Often Don’t See Damon Young. That’s About to Change.” https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/03/white-people-often-dont-see-damon-young-thats-about-to-change/ in Mother Jones (March/April 2019)