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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer April 13, 1960

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She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of..."
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. Jeffrey Eugenides
a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical--because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to... Jeffrey Eugenides
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Jeffrey Eugenides
And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. Jeffrey Eugenides
There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by a chain. Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions...The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined. The chain spoke of poverty and mistrust and inequality and decadence. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to..."
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Jeffrey Eugenides

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