"If you think of even Tolstoy or a……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it."
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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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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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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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself…
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.…
— Bill Tilden
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Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room…
— Bill Maher
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On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher…
— Mike Modano
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The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
— Anna Wintour
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
— Cornelia Funke
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But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her…
— Judy Woodruff
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Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it…
— Ann Coulter
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
— Hanif Kureishi
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna…
— Alexander Chee
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