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English Majors Understand Human Nature Better Than Economists Do.

When I Went To First Grade And The Other Children Said That Their Fathers Were Farmers, I Simply Didn't Believe Them. I Agreed In Order To Be Polite, But In My Heart I Knew That Those Men Were Impostors, As Farmers And As Fathers, Too. In My Youthful Estimation, Laurence Cook Defined Both Categories. To Really Believe That Others Even Existed In Either Category Was To Break The First Commandment.

All Equestrians, If They Last Long Enough, Learn That Riding In Whatever Form Is A Lifelong Sport And Art, An Endeavor That Is Both Familiar And New Every Time You Take The Horse Out Of His Stall Or Pasture.

When 'the Awakening' Was Published It Was Considered So Scandalous It Was Banned In The Author's Home-town Library, And She Herself Was Barred From The Fine Arts Club In The Same City. What The Novel Has To Offer, Among Other Things, Is Honesty.

A Novelist Has Two Lives-- A Reading And Writing Life, And A Lived Life. He Or She Cannot Be Understood At All Apart From This.