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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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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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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 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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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. Cmon – Van Halen doing Dancing in the Streets? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone elses music. – Eddie Van Halen

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I didnt really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, youve made a whole new load of friends and shes made a whole new load of friends and you get home and youre kind of strangers. – Michael Caine

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