Quote by Jane Smiley
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. – Jane Smiley

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Future
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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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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldnt be surprised by the effects of deregulation. – Jane Smiley

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Nature
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Experience
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. – E. M. Forster

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Experience

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. – Edward de Bono

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Experience

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry

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Experience

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. – Albert Einstein

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Experience

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. – Charlotte Bronte

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You cant fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, thats got nothing to do with it. Its how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. – Etta James

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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if its a true story. – Joel Coen

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Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! – Terri Guillemets

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