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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
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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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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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
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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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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
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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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