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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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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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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
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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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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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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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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
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All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
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everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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