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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
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
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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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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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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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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
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The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.
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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
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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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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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that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep
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It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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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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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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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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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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The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.
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