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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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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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People with good intentions never give up!
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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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it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
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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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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 don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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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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a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.
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The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer it's possessed by the reader.
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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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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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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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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
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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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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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