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

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

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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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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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Religion
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Nature
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. – Jules Verne

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Nature

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong

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Nature

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Nature

Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes… – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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Nature

Random Quotes

Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Men

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. – Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

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Imagination

The only change I can really see is that I dont have to shop for pants in stores anymore. – Larry David

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Change

It was obvious to me that for optimal fitness, yoga and Pilates belonged together…. Yogilates was born from my desire to create an accessible and effective regimen that contained the best of both techniques and would be ideal for everyone…. – Jonathan Urla, Yogilates: Integrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Str

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Yoga