"I know that attaching memories to books may……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life."
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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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What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I…
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling,…
— Byron Katie
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow,…
— Clay Shirky
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Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower…
— Steven Morrissey
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth,…
— George Sand
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and…
— Max Stirner
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I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not…
— Peter Medawar
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
— Jonathan Kozol
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For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and…
— Unknown Author
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The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to…
— John Dewey
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Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise,…
— Herbert Turnbull
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