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

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

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The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. – James Newman

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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. – Julia Ward Howe

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