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Some Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 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 studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old…
- Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
- 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,…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
- Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,…
- There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
- Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
- The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness…
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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
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