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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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 think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley

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War
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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Marriage
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Other Quotes from
Death
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives ones death, one dies ones life. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Death

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death. – Buddha

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Death

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. – Ian Fleming

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Death

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Death

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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Justice & Law

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good. – Yakov Smirnoff

Category:
good

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. – Thomas Jefferson, 1809

Category:
Integrity

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. – Sandra Day OConnor

Category:
Government