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First Quotes by Jane Smiley
- When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving…
- 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…
- Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.
- When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
- Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there…
- Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
More First Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- If we bang on the first date chances are our relationship is lasting about as long as my erection. — Nikhil Saluja
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin