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Jeffrey Eugenides Inspirational Quotes (126)

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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
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The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
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Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.
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I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
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But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.
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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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it's amazing what you can get used to.
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
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Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope
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Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
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But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.
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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
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