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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: To start with, look at all the books.
         

To start with, look at all the books.


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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.

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.



Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.



When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.



Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly



It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.



In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.



Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.



You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.



It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.



She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.





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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.



The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.



That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.




I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

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