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Respect and fear are two different things. - Jane Smiley

Respect and fear are two different things. – Jane Smiley

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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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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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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield

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My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that Ill kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, Now Im gonna make films for kids. I really hope I dont do that. – Trey Parker

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Fear is always a good motivator. – James Dyson

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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. – George Matthew Adams

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. – Wayne Dyer

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I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. – Susannah McCorkle

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New technology is useful, but its inefficient and ugly it knows itll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. – Tom Holt

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Im interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. Im not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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