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

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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Marriage
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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley

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War
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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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Experience
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. – Albert Schweitzer

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Experience

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. – Harry S. Truman

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Experience

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasnt a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now. – Jennifer Lopez

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Experience

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! – Yani Tseng

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Experience

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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. – Norman Douglas

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. – Elbert Hubbard

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Vacations

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry