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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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Jane Graves Smiley
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
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I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
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I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
Jane Smiley
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
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The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
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I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
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The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
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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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There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
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I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.
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