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

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Home
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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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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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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Its been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East. – Ann Romney

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Sometimes I get so bold and Im so confident about what Im doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because its a really liberating feeling to experience what its like to not care. – John Mayer

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I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. – Carlos Fuentes

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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others. – Eric Berne

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The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming – all these are very clearly tied to energy. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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