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

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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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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Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
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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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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.
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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
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Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.
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Scars crossed her welded wrists.
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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
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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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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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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 may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
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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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There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
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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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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
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