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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
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Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
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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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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
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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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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
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I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their tits bleed.
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All wisdom ends in paradox.
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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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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
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Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.
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There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.
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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 knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.
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