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The time has to be right and the heart willing.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Willing
Right
Heart
Time

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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
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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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If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
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I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.
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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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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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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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-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.
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It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.
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Every letter was a love letter.
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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
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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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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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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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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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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
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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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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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