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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Letters
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Love

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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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It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
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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.
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Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
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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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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
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Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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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 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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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
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In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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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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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
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