Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes - Page 6

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• I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

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  Work, Writing, Ifs

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• I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

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  Technology, Rooms, Internet

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• They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

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  Children, Husband, College

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

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  Grandparent, Missing, Sound

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.223, A&C Black

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• The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

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  Zippers, Way, Spine

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

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  Believe, Book, Writing

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• The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

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  Girl, Powerful, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

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  Mean, Hair, Tree

  "Fictional character: Cecilia Lisbon". "The Virgin Suicides", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

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  Suicide, Sleep, Night

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

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  Immigration, Able, Next

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.40, A&C Black

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• Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

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  Normal, Manifest, Ifs

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.503, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

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  Suicide, Self Harm, Thinking

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

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  Mother, Two, Wire

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• Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

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  Voice, People, Longing

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.329, A&C Black

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• There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

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  Plato, Two, Forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.378, Macmillan

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• All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

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  Rocks, Years, Two

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

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  Self, Mind, Different

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.303, Macmillan

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

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  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

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  Long, Finals, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.20, A&C Black

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• Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

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  Father, Passion, Player

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.173, A&C Black

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• We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

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  Half, Other Half, Made

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.440, A&C Black

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• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

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  Winter, Despair, Alcoholism

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• Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

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  Loss, Reality, Mystical Experiences

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

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• We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

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  Girl, Jobs, Noise

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

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  Memories, Writing

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