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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes: Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.
         

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.


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You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.



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