"Three times a day Petrovich showed up at……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius."
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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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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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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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The worst thing about religion was religious people.
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