"In my experience, there is only one motivation,……" — Jane Smiley
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
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102 Quotes by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that…
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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do…
— Muhammad Ali
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
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The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly…
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion…
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Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
— Matt Redman
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