Quote by Jane Smiley
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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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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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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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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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his fathers wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his fathers care. – William Penn

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Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom. – Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. – Edward C. Steadman

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Wisdom

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Wisdom

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Beware the tyranny of the minority. – Proverb

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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health. – Samantha Morton

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Health

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds. – Homer, Iliad

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Death

Fear cannot take what you do not give it. – Christopher Coan

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