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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.

Jane Smiley

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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
Emotion
Love
Specific
General
Marriage

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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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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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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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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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Novelists never have to footnote.
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I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
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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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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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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
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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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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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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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Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...
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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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Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
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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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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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