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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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Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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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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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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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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Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.
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