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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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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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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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I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
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In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.
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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
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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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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
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Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
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it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
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People are quite frequently eccentric.
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Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
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