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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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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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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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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.
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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.
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I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.
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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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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
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But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
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Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide
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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
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I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
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I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.
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There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.
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