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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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Death
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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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Beauty
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Dont marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you cant live without. – James C. Dobson

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Marriage

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. – Keith OBrien

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Marriage

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. – Francois Rabelais

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Marriage

Obamas position on marriage is brazenly cynical. – David Limbaugh

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