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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to w

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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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – Jane Smiley

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mom
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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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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. – Og Mandino

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I do interviews because its a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I dont have any great wisdom. – Parker Stevenson

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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. – Nina Totenberg

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Every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second. – Conan OBrien

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The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…. The writing of history liberates us from history. – Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty

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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. – Martina Navratilova

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Its like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. Theyre scared, but theyre not going to get hurt. – Vincent DOnofrio

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