Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.
Jane Smileyeverything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.
Jane SmileyA novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
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