--- title: "1 Person Knew Quotes By Lee Smith" description: "1 Person Knew quotes by Lee Smith. Plus more from Lee Smith and more Person Knew sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg" --- > [“Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like “paths in life” out loud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who-said-things-like-paths-in/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg) ## More by Lee Smith > [“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/and-i-belive-i-am-too-and-if-you-think-that-is-awful-then-you-dont/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/certainly-i-was-a-very-religious-child-a-deeply-weird-and-very/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-have-always-been-interested-in-religion-especially-in-forms-of/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/born-virginia-marshall-but-nicknamed-gig-my-mother-was-a-home/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-had-always-dreamed-of-living-in-chapel-hill-when-i-was-a-college/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-think-what-happens-to-young-writers-is-that-they-use-up-every-life/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-am-so-sorry-to-see-the-state-of-reading-in-such-decline-i-think-it/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/for-in-the-world-of-the-mad-time-is-not-a-continuum-but-a-fluid/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/for-once-i-am-living-my-life-rather-than-watching-it-pass-in-review/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“I had before me an object lesson, I thought: two ways to face the world. One way as embodied by this old woman—simple, unassuming,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-had-before-me-an-object-lesson-i-thought-two-ways-to-face-the-world/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/is-any-story-not-always-the-narrator-s-story-in-the-end/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/my-belief-is-that-we-have-only-one-life-that-this-is-all-there-is/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/to-much-has-happened-too-fast-dear-diary-what-i-want-is-for-nothing/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/this-point-i-could-not-show-myself-of-course-or-all-would/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) > [“Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/perhaps-any-life-is-such-different-stories-like-different-strands/) [Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/person-knew/lee-smith/#itemlist", "name": "1 Person Knew Quotes By Lee Smith", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like “paths in life” out loud.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lee Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who-said-things-like-paths-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like “paths in life” out loud.” — Lee Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/person-knew/lee-smith/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/person-knew/lee-smith/", "name": "Person Knew Quotes by Lee Smith", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/person-knew/lee-smith/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/lee-smith-15392_life_pearl-is-the-only-person-i-ever-knew-who_1983933.jpg" }, "description": "1 Person Knew quotes by Lee Smith. 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