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One Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 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 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 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 approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one…
- 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…
- Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
- 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…
- The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel…
- 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…
- It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was…
- Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
- 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…
- But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival…
- All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
- Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one…
- The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
- The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair
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