Quote by Jane Smiley
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an

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

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – Jane Smiley

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I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. – John Philip Sousa

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Beauty

Its the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days youve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. – Craig Ferguson

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Beauty

I love the game, its the greatest game on earth, thats why I cant understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? Thats the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. – Eric Davis

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Beauty

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You cant put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if youre doing it from a position of correction. – Kevyn Aucoin

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The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

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You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you. – Edward Burns

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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. – Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American Proverb

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