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Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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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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When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance…
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds…
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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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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off…
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A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and…
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Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most…
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Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed…
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My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in…
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I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their…
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