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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

Day Writing Start Every Day Early

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

Focus People Me Wake Up Unhappy

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

Life Family Love School Friends Out

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Truth Small Human Complete Instant

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Pain Present Lying Hatred Without

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Robert Anton Wilson

Own Only Who Those Encyclopedia

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

Romesh Gunesekera

Growing Up World Reading Place Young

I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.

Music Grateful Feel Get Make I Feel

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

Think Actor Celebrity Difference

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.

Human Cook Who Species Learned

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Art People Understand Involved Found

For those of us on the front lines fighting Washington's power grabs, Judge Gorsuch's commitment to interpreting the Constitution and the laws as they are actually written is welcome news.

Power Commitment Welcome Judge News

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

Dimebag Darrell

Man Yourself Me Cool You Play

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