"At the same time, it's a family story……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"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, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it."
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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides has 213 quotes on this site.
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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and…
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My goal in life is to become an adjective,
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My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
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I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to…
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each…
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Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to…
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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in…
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The worst thing about religion was religious people.
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More Cal Quotes
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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that…
— Carl Jung
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
— James Stockdale
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In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a…
— Elton Gallegly
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Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who…
— Cal Ripken, Jr.
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The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and…
— Jose Canseco
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For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at…
— Peter Oppenheimer
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
— Amy Waldman
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There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
— Earl Weaver
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Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring…
— Ron White
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Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we…
— Brian Williams
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I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not…
— Thomas McDonell
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