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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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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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It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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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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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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