"People are quite frequently eccentric." — Jane Smiley
"People are quite frequently eccentric."
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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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More Eccentric Quotes
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one of 200 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
— Brandon Boyd
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds.…
— Dana Carvey
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
— Anton Chekhov
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
— James Hillman
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there…
— John Flavel
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
— Rajneesh
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Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
— Oliver Herring
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
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If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as…
— John Eliot
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Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point…
— Clifton Fadiman
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