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Quote by Jane Smiley
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was alm

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley

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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

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