"Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils."
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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 faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with…
— Margaret Atwood
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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