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You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

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Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

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. . . is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

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Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

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