“Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.”
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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.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
When a novel has 200, 000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200, 000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
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.
