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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
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He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.
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