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it's amazing what you can get used to.

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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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In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.
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But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
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He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.
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To start with, look at all the books.
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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
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I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
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Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.
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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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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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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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People don't save other people. People save themselves.
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