Quote by Jane Smiley
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirati

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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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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Wisdom
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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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Death
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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Death

Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. – Kularnava

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Death

I am not afraid of death, I just dont want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

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Death

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through Gods mercy and Christs merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husbands arms, and to lie down with Him. – Donald Cargill

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Death

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Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte

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Cinema is a matter of whats in the frame and whats out. – Martin Scorsese

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movies

The secret of getting things done is to act! – Dante Alighieri

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Politics

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. – David Viscott

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