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

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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. – 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 grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs. – Frank Langella

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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. – Hillary Clinton

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