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Wells Quotes by Jane Smiley
- When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving…
- Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could…
- There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are…
- A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
- Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle