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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!'
Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.
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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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The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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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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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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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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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
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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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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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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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Respect and fear are two different things.
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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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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
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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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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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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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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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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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