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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
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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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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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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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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Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
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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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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
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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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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital 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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Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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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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