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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.
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This can't be true but I remember it.
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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
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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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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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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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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
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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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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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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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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
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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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In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.
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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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Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide
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I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.
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