"I was born twice: first, as a baby……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
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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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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn…
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth…
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of…
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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