Writing this book was incredibly fun because I soaked in the bathtub, laid around eating chocolate in bed, cooked dinner for my family and read novels the whole time.
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.Jane Smiley
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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