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Turns Quotes by Jane Smiley
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen