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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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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – 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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The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. – Alveda King

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Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. – Errol Flynn

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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. – Giacomo Casanova

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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone

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