Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
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When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
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'There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.'
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It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
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When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
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Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.
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I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
