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Own Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them…
- 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 studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old…
- I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
- 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…
- 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.
- The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too…
- She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
- 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,…
- Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill…
- 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…
- But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
- Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
- We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
More Own Quotes
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Dreams are much better if they come by their own. — Nishan Panwar
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn