If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Jane Smiley
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  1. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

  2. The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules...

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  4. My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.

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