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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.
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In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
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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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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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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
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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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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
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Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
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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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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis
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On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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