The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're … - Mary Jo Salter

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In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

Mary Jo Salter

The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and so I'm careful about how I write about them. I may write about them as a child, but I'm not going to write about their current struggles because they're adults and they can do it for themselves. I want to give them some space in a way I didn't when they were younger.

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Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee.
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And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

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All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us.

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