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Life Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way…
- After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life…
- The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body…
- Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these…
- Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could…
- If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are…
- I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a…
- I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
- In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured…
- Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts…
- I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you…
- I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
- A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
- Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle