"Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly"

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Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

Jeffrey Eugenides

#Life Quotes #Reality Quotes #Dreamer Quotes

“I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.”
“Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”
“Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.”
“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.”
“Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.”
“A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.”
“We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.”
“I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.”

Source : "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.

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