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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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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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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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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, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
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It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
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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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