Quote by Jane Smiley
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the conditio

Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. – 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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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan

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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. – Michel de Montaigne

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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, its much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly

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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein

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To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

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