504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
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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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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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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
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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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