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A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.
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