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Reading 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.
- Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
- She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
- Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine…
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