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Jane Smiley Biography

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).

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I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

Big, Closing Up, Everything, Issues, Sale, Sides

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

Everything, Overload, Thinking, Toxic, Toxins

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Doctors, Injury, Midst, Patch, Things, Vets

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Head, Icons, Like, Meaningless, Reminders, Writing

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