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

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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I learned why out riding alone is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley

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alone
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Experience

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. – Gloria Swanson

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Experience

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Experience

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. – Robert Duvall

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Experience

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Its afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didnt necessarily prove that you loved him. – Marguerite Duras

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Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. – George Ade

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Humorous

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. – Rich Kulawiec

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Programming

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright. – Harvey Ball

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