"She'd become an English major for the purest……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read."
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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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The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by…
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the…
— James A. Garfield
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand…
— Lord Byron
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the…
— Al Pacino
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To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to…
— Peter Sellers
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Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise…
— Armond White
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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
— David Hume
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
— Wyndham Lewis
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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and…
— Maya Angelou
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the…
— Arthur Helps
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