Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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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.
• It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls,…
• During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
• 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
• On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
• We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't…
• The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness…
• I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching…
• One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
• A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home…
• 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…
• At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
• It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and…

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