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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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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
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This can't be true but I remember it.
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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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The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.
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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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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
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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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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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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
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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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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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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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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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They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
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But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
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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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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
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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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