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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
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Every letter was a love letter.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
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Scars crossed her welded wrists.
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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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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.
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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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Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.
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Don't waste your time on life.
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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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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.
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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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I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
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that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep
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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 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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I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.
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