Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• it's amazing what you can get used to.
• She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
• I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
• Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
• It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was…
• Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
• The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now…
• Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to…
• All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that…
• Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
• Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
• The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
• Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill…
• I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from…
• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,…
• The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From…
• There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person…
• Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
• our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
• But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival…

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