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Life Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- My goal in life is to become an adjective,
- Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated…
- One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
- I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent…
- I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years.…
- I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
- 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.
- 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…
- I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do…
- Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
- I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
- 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…
- In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
- Don't waste your time on life.
- 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…
- Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
- 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…
- And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle