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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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Jane Smiley
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
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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 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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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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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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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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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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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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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 thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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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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There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
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I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
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Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
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But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
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Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.
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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
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