"I saw the movie, he said. I know……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their tits bleed."
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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 Bleed Quotes
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
— Aberjhani
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So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart…
— Hernando Cortes
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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn,…
— Alanis Morissette
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
— Wyatt Earp
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
— Bruce Lee
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the…
— Leon Brown
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
— Sun Tzu
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I ain't got time to bleed.
— Jesse Ventura
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
— Augusten Burroughs
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
— Neil Gaiman
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