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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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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley

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Wisdom
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Jane Smiley
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I learned why out riding alone is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley

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alone
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What Ive learned about marriage: You need to have each others back you have to be a kind of team going through life. – Tom Petty

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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. – John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole

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I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse – I cant support it in fundamentalist compounds. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. – Joe Murray

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Half the time I feel like Im appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and Im an upper. – Wolfman Jack

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