Quote by Jane Smiley
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do. – Jane Smiley

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

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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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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Nature
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. – Deepak Chopra

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Nature

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

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Nature

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Nature

Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. – Andrew Bernstein

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Nature

Random Quotes

I dont like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, Im pleased with Petes success but I dont like what theyve done to it. – Roger Daltrey

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Success

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco

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Happiness

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone elses draft. – H. G. Wells

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communication

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Anger