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A Thousand Acres Study Guide

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by Jane Smiley
About 56 pages (16,865 words)
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"What it felt like was sitting in Sunday school singing 'Jesus Loves Me,' sitting in the little chairs, surrounded by sunlight and bright drawings, and having those first inklings of doubt, except that doubt presents itself simply as added knowledge, something new, for the moment, to set beside what is already known." Chapter 19, pg. 144

"Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he's having right now. That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he's done before is still.....

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