Quote by Jane Smiley
I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience

I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – 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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War
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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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Death
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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 my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I dont want those things in my life. – Chrissie Hynde

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Experience

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. – H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

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I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem. – Don Winslow

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