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They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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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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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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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.
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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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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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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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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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