Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes - Page 5

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• There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

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  Be You

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.189, A&C Black

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• I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

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  Girl, Baby, Teenage

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Scars crossed her welded wrists.

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  Scar, Wrists

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

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  Beautiful, Stupid, Good Luck

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

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  Crush, Boys, Night

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.379, A&C Black

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• My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

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  Girl, Couple, House

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.41, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

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  Girl, Suicide, Hair

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.

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  Blood, Half, Alive

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• It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

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  Morning, Body, Clock

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

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  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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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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  Book, Reading, College

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

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  Mean, Want, Life Is

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I was unemployable when I got out of college.

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  College

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• Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

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  Success, Novelists, Winner

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• The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

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  Dream, Reality, Together

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.343, A&C Black

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• I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

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  Suicide, Growing Up, Book

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• I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Writing

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• I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.

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  Writing, Long, Interesting

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• Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

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  Desire, Path, Faces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

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  Creativity, Character, People

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

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  Girl, Cat, Dark

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

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  Confused, Real, Writing

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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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 see that none of them led to us.

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  Depression, Steps, Helping

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

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  Girl, Opportunity, Window

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.343, A&C Black

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

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  Grief, Night, Blue

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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