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  1. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    Don't you want to know what happened?" Carol turned to look at her and put her hands on her hips. She said, "No, I don't, because I don't want you making a story out of it, because as soon as you make a story out of it, then it keeps happening every time you tell it, and if you make a good story out of it, then you're gonna want to tell it, so don't bother.
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  2. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    If you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.
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  3. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    This was an aspect of Barbie-hood that Mary had never given any thought to, that Barbie created Ken, anatomically incorrect to the very core of his brain, where he understood as well as he understood his own name that Barbie was inviolable.
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  4. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    but no matter how receptive his pretty and sweet speech therapist looked, no matter how softly and encouragingly she said, "Go ahead, try it. Say it," still, the sounds came out like mooing.
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  5. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    Dean Harstad had unbounded patience, the very patience that drove Chairman X bananas, patience as a weapon.
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  6. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    How could she pursue the transcendence and virtue of the intellectual life when her mind had disappeared into her body like a sponge into a basin of ink? Which did not mean,
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  7. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    The plant succession that had begun in March with snowdrops and early crocuses would soon flicker out in a blaze of orange chrysanthemums and show its last pinpoints of color in bittersweet and ash berries hanging like embers in the general misty brown of the world.
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  8. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    A girl who made no mistakes about the right shade of lipstick would always land on her feet.
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  9. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    DR. LIONEL GIFT IS in bed with Arlen Martin, billionaire, but only in the Washington, D.C., sense.
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  10. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    Those Latin American and Eastern European novelists aren't any help here. They live inside the mansion of female desire as if it is their right. Their own desire is a nice healthy dog on a string, ready to eat, fuck, fetch, piss on the bushes.
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  11. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
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  12. Jane Smiley _ Moo

    like a man who has jumped off a diving board, but then, through force of will, lowers himself inch by inch into the pool.
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