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My goal in life is to become an adjective.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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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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Life
Adjective
Adjectives
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
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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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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.
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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
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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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it's amazing what you can get used to.
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People don't save other people. People save themselves.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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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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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
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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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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
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