This whole country’s stolen.
– Jeffrey Eugenides
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- Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. – Colson Whitehead
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- in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution. – Jeffrey Eugenides
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- This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain. – Jeffrey Eugenides
- He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too. – Megan Whalen Turner
- Master yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and you master the whole universe. – Jeffrey Fry
- Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn’t. His whole life was being a judge. – Jeffrey Toobin
- My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. – Christopher Paolini
- He eased back and murmured, -œYou taste so damn sweet. Like maple syrup.--œAnd you taste like stolen bacon. – Lorelei James
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- Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen. – Mort Sahl
- A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. – Michel Faber
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