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Iris Smyles

Novelist

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Iris Smyles is a novelist.

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Profession: Novelist

About Iris Smyles

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Iris Smyles is an American writer. Her debut novel Iris Has Free Time (2013) was published by Soft Skull Press and Dating Tips for the Unemployed (2016), an informal companion novel, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her

Quotes by Iris Smyles

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

Believe

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For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started…

Life

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As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win…

Children

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Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are…

Advertising

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It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything…

Acknowledge

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I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Country

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There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the…

Adventure

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