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And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
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There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine's natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years.
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The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
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I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
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She wanted out of the decorating scheme.
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I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.
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When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
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And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.
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That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
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I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.
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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
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A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
We found each other for so long before we lost each other.
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Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.
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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
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Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This
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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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This whole country's stolen.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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Don't waste your time on life.
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
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