"The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind."
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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 Confidence Quotes
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
— Pietro Aretino
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
— Aristotle
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
— Aristotle
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
— Jane Austen
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
— Lauren Bacall
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
— Lauren Bacall
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
— Richard Bach
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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