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Jeffrey Eugenides Kent é escritor romancista e contista americano vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção. Eugenides é mais conhecido por seus dois romances aclamados, As virgens suicidas e Middlesex .

✵ 8. Março 1960  •  Outros nomes جفری ایوژنایدس
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Jeffrey Eugenides Frases famosas

“Antes era possível, em geral, dizer a nacionalidade da pessoa pela cara. A imigração acabou com isso. Depois ainda dava para descobrir a nacionalidade pelos sapatos. A globalização acabou com isso.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Middlesex

“A tragédia se tornou difusa e universalizada.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

The Virgin Suicides

“Inertes exceto quando removidos, batiam as asas com fúria entre nossos dedos e então voavam para se agarrar novamente a qualquer coisa, inertes outra vez”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

The Virgin Suicides

“Nosso único legado seria a deserção.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

The Virgin Suicides

“As meninas estavam enormes naqueles vestidos de cerimónia, construídos à volta de uma estrutura de arame. Tinham quilos e quilos de cabelo, bem presos, na cabeça. Embriagadas, beijando-nos, ou a desmaiar nas cadeiras, estavam destinadas ao ensino superior, aos maridos, à educação dos filhos, à infelicidade que dificilmente se percebia - enfim, à vida.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

The Virgin Suicides

“Apesar de todos os cuidados e reclamações sobre ervas daninhas, eles não davam a mínima para os gramados.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

The Virgin Suicides

“As mulheres sabem o que significa ter um corpo. Compreendem suas dificuldades e fragilidades, suas glórias e seus prazeres. Os homens tratam o corpo como coisa só sua. Cuidam dele privadamente, mesmo quando estão em público.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Middlesex

“A mente se autoedita. A mente se dá retoques. Habitar um corpo é diferente de estar fora dele. De fora, a gente pode olhar, inspecionar, comparar.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Middlesex

“Pais supostamente legam características físicas aos filhos, mas acredito que todo tipo de outras coisas também: temas, cenários, até mesmo destinos.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides: Frases em inglês

“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 livro Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

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

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

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

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“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

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“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 livro The Marriage Plot

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“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

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“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 livro The Marriage Plot

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

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

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“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”

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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 livro Middlesex

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“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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“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

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“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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“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 livro The Marriage Plot

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“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

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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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“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 livro Middlesex

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“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 livro The Marriage Plot

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

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