"It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time."

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Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

Jeffrey Eugenides

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“The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.”
“Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church.”
“Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'”
“The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.”

Source : "Industrial Engineering : An Address Delivered" by Henry R. Towne, www.stamfordhistory.org. February 24th, 1905.
“To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.”
“But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.”
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.”

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