When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, … - Jane Smiley

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If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

Jane Smiley

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

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it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

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A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

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Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

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The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

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Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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