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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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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.
Jeffrey Eugenides
My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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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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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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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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It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
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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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If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
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Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.
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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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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 begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
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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.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
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