Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
• I was unemployable when I got out of college.
• I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
• No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
• They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them…
• My goal in life is to become an adjective,
• My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
• I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.…
• If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third…
• Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated…
• In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and…
• The worst thing about religion was religious people.
• 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…
• One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
• Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
• But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
• I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard…
• I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't…
• There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
• Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

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