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'm very much a family person.
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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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She gets too hungry for dinner at eight...She likes a crap game, but never come late...She'd never bother with people she hates...That's why the lady is a tramp.
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I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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.
