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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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There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.
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Don't waste your time on life.
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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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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 always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
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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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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
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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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She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
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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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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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I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
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Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
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And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.
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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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There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
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There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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