Jane Smiley's Quotes

Jane Smiley's Quotes 21

If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then...

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

In the traditional urban novel there is only survival or not. The suburban...

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There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature...

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his...

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My...

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year...

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college I told my...

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I loved the house the way you would any new house because it is populated by...

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect...

Respect and fear are two different things.

When a novel has 200 000 words then it is possible for the reader to...

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience I do...

In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No...

Somehow knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to...

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition patch it...

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States...

I discovered that the horse is life itself a metaphor but also an example of...

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone...