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Hungry ears are sharp ones.

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
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Hungry
Ears

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If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
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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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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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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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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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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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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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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
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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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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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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
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