Jane Smiley's Quote - If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to w

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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Respect and fear are two different things. – 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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Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. – Jane Smiley

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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. – Robert E. Lee

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Wise care keeps what it has gained. – Danish proverb

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