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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides je americký romanopisec a povídkář. Knižně debutoval roku 1993 románem Sebevraždy panen, který o šest let později zfilmovala režisérka Sofia Coppola. Dosud největšího úspěchu dosáhl Eugenides se svým následujícím románem Hermafrodit , který byl oceněn Pulitzerovou cenou a nominován na celou řadu dalších ocenění. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. březen 1960  •  Další jména جفری ایوژنایدس
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Jeffrey Eugenides citáty a výroky

„Spisovatelé by měli při psaní knih předstírat, že píší nejlepší dopis svého života pro svého nejchytřejšího kamaráda, což jim pomůže vyhnout se přílišnému vysvětlování.“

Jeffrey Eugenides

Zdroj: [Zuzana Fonioková, Tragédie každodennosti, casopis.hostbrno.cz, 2014-03-22, http://casopis.hostbrno.cz/aktualni-rocnik/2014/03-2014/tragedie-kazdodennosti]

Jeffrey Eugenides: Citáty anglicky

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“To start with, look at all the books.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“This can't be true but I remember it.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Varianta: There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

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“Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

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“All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

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“We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

“Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

“Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides kniha The Marriage Plot

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“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”

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