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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smoke

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – Jane Smiley

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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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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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Well, my mom is single and weve both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Dianes. – Amanda Peet

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“My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or shed make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 58″” and weighed 165 pounds.” – Carol Alt

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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. – Erma Bombeck

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mom

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. – Trey Anastasio

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How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb

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Before success comes in any mans life, hes sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. Thats exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

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