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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
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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 think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.
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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
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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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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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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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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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We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
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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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I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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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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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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