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-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Detroit
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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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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Don't waste your time on life.
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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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