Psychology Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

11 Psychology quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides crafts stories that linger in the mind, and here he turns that craft inward. Eleven succinct observations reveal his fascination with identity, memory, and the subtle forces that shape our inner lives.

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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

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“Ugye, megmondtam, hogy a jó szerencsére mindig bánat jön!”

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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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“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up…

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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look,…

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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…

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Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as…

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“...between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression.…

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We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up…

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“Whereas my grandfather was getting used to a much more terrifying reality. Holding my hand to keep his balance, as trees and…

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“Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You…

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“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.”

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“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

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It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

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“Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it.”

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“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I…

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I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.…

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“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,…

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“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The…

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“Her face was calm, but inside she was tense.”

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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your…

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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

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Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters,…

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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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Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

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