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Story Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 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've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- 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…
- That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s…
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
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