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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

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These are some quotes by American author Jeffrey Eugenides Novelist, who was born on April 13, 1960.

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I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

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.

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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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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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.

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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I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

Rory McIlroy

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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

J. Philippe Rushton

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