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Firsts 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.
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour