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Book: The Marriage Plot
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche {and half asleep}, Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being "about" something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was "about" anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Olivia lit a cigarette and said, "God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot
Almost overnight it became laughable to read writers like Cheever or Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about anally deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France. The reason de Sade was preferable was that his shocking sex scenes weren't about sex but politics. They were therefore anti-imperialist, anti-bourgeois, anti-patriarchal, and anti-everything a smart young feminist should be against.
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