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I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
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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If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.
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-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.
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Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
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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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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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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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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
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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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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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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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Every letter was a love letter.
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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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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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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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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
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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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