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People don't save other people. People save themselves.

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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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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.
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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.
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Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.
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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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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
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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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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.
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I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.
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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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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
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There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
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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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