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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Always
Amateur
Remain
Begin
Knowing
Forever
Firsts
Nothing
First
Timer

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