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I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
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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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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
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In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
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