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Book Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
- 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…
- I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard…
- I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
- 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…
- 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…
- But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
- To start with, look at all the books.
- There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
- She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
- She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
- 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 think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like…
- 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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