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Thinking 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,…
- I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think…
- Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you…
- 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…
- Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And…
- 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,…
- I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
- 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…
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