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Other Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
- I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable…
- I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the…
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle