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Before Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 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…
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths…
- I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
- My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
- 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…
- Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys…
- In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the…
- 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…
- She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- 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
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson