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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. ↗

— Euripides

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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

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