"I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are."

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Source : "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #College Quotes

“I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.”
“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”
“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”
“If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.”
“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.
“Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.”
“Steve Hadley is an interesting option as secretary of state because he is somebody that is, you know, familiar to power, served in the White House, and did not oppose Donald Trump the way a lot of the Republican foreign policy establishment did. But his name was not on that list, at least at the moment.”
“I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.”

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