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From Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
- My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
- 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…
- In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and…
- Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
- I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually…
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- 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…
- 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…
- no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
- 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…
- They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
- 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…
- We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once…
- Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then,…
- 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…
- The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
- 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…
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