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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Quality More Because Like Than He

I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.

Love Ocean Brain Smoking Friends Go

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

Love King Singing Stand Now Kind

I like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.

Roberto Firmino

I Am Relax You Go Inside First

The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.

Michael Wadleigh

Passion Performance Energy You Find

Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.

World Someone Doing House Rules Say

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I Am Me Writing Think Feel Result

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Culture Book Reading Information New

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

Age Alone Think Earth More Dying

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

Dolores O'Riordan

Love Live I Am Trying Now Kids

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Time Fire Me Ship Loss Three

Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.

Look Now Movies Kind Never Sixties

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

Day End Of The Day End Enemy My Own

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