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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ”

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ”

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ”

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. ”

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. ”

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human. ”

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. ”

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. ”

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. ”

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ”