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Been Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
- When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
- Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- 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…
- Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance,…
- My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
- It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She…
- What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been…
- 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…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong