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One Quotes by Jane Smiley
- One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right…
- 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…
- Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
- Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was…
- If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who…
- I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two…
- With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just…
- One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,…
- Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has…
- A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
- Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,…
- There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of…
- I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to…
- In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than…
- A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path…
- You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes…
- In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle