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All wisdom ends in paradox.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Paradox
Wisdom
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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.
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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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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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We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
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