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Zoe Heller

Here is a somewhat mischievous interview with Zoe Heller in Morning News:

RB: Both of your children are girls. What are your aspirations for them?

ZH: ..... One of the big arguments I am having with their father is whether I should want them to be, really for lack of a better word, cultured. Should I want to transmit to them the things that are important to me? Like reading, or certain kinds of classy music. All that stuff, right? And he says the thing you want to hope for is that they are not at all intellectual. Because what does intellect give you except unhappiness. Intellectually unhappy. What you want most for them is that they are— ...Happy. And honest and decent .."

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