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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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 of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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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 to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Home
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf wont get much sleep.. – Woody Allen

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Marriage

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. – Gene Simmons

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Marriage

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. – Carly Fiorina

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The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. – John Gilmore, 1993

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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You cannot be lost on a road that is straight. – Proverb

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The early bird gets the worm. – Proverb

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