Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
• I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a…
• You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
• He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
• If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do…
• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one…
• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
• It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
• But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
• A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
• Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
• The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to…
• The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
• I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
• On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics…
• 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…
• Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he…
• The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

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