Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes - Page 6

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

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Writing

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• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Despair, Alcoholism

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• Every letter was a love letter.

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  Letters, Love Letter

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• To start with, look at all the books.

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  Book, Looks

  "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

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  Long, Trying, Attention

  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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• 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.

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  Suicide, Boys, Narrative Voice

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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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• 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 approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

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  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "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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• 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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• 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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• She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

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  Schemes, Decorating, Wanted

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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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• But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

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  Becoming One, House, Survival

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

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  Tired, Half, World

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.161, 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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