Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.Jane Smiley
In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing is a subversive force.
Jane Smiley
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
Jane Smiley
Just look at movies. As movies are getting bigger and bigger and more expensive to produce, the screens that people are looking at them are getting smaller.
Jane Smiley
Most interestingly of all, she attempts to show that the novel as a form has a certain political coloring, because it has to have a certain organization. ... that's a statement that says, 'conformity is not the highest good.'
Jane Smiley
I suggest that it be used like a trunk full of fabric samples or a box of costume jewelry - it is not to be read through from beginning to end in search of a cohesive argument, but to be rummaged about in, in search of something interesting or striking.
Jane Smiley
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