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There Are Five Things That Societies Do: They Reproduce; They Produce Food; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Law; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Belief; And They Make Art. Four Of Them Are About Conformity, And In These, Everything Would Go More Smoothly If People Just Would Shut Up And Do What They're Told. But In Art It Doesn't Work That Way.

One Of The Things That Ivar Knew About Mrs. Walker Was That She Would Only Tell Him What She Knew If He Asked The Right Question, So He Spent A Portion Of His Time Meditating Over What He Might Ask Mrs. Walker And How He Might Phrase The Question.

When People Leave, They Always Seem To Scoop Themselves Out Of You.

If Novels And Stories Are Bulletins From The Progressive States Of Ignorance A Writer Passes Through Over The Years, Observations And Opinions About Horses Are All The More So, Since Horses Are More Mysterious Than Life And Harder To Understand.

The Only Siblings I Have Are Half-siblings. My Nuclear Family Would Have Been An Extra-suffocating Threesome. Instead, I Have An Interesting Brother And Sister, In-laws, And Darling Nephews.