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Book: Golden Age
Quotes of Book: Golden Age

Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
She said, "Some are born bossy, some achieve bossiness, and some have bossiness thrust upon them.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
Her parents took her very seriously; she had trained them, with a combination of treats and punishments, to allow her to do as she pleased and express herself, and to pay attention to her opinions. Thanks
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
Compared with Iowa, Kansas City was a strange world. The Halls where she worked was in the most elegant place she'd ever been at that point, a made-up town for shopping, a Fifth Avenue on the prairie {when she got to the real Fifth Avenue, she wasn't very impressed, because the Country Club Plaza had spoiled her}.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last chance to enjoy this, and so she did, day after day
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events in your life took place in your head.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
She didn't relate this memory to Janet, but she did think right then that all golden ages are discovered within. No one would ever know that her father, Carl, the endless Iowa horizon, a pan of shortbread emerging from the oven, and her grandchildren laughing in the next room had indeed made her life a golden age.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
It was one of life's treats, wasn't it, paying a visit to your past, swinging like a ball on a string away from the person you loved, always knowing that the string must pull you back, and you would be oh so glad to get there.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
I'm not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.
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Jane Smiley _ Golden Age
Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn't have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child's playroom.
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