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Tell 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.
- I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.…
- I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years.…
- You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended…
- 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…
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