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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: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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LA
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Jane Graves Smiley
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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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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We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
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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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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
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Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
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My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.
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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'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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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
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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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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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