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Than Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
- 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 want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent…
- One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
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