Jane Smiley Quotes - Page 3

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• I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

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  Horse, Generosity, Example

  "Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

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  Running, Horse, Winning

  "A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck". Book by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 2004.

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• Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

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  Reading, Sound, Hot

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• There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

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  Children, Driving, Introducing

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

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  Sports, Art, Horse

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• A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

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  Adventure, Together, Three

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

  Jane Smiley

  Memories, Writing, People

  "Fictionaut Five: Jane Smiley" by Meg Pokrass, fictionaut.com. December 29, 2010.

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• Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

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  Ideas, People, Gossip

  "Fictionaut Five: Jane Smiley" by Meg Pokrass, fictionaut.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

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  Doe, Embarrassment, Knows

  "Capitalist Pigs" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

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  War, Thinking, Pieces

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• I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

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  Writing, Might, Mystery

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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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.

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  Writing, Progress, Lucky

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  Jane Smiley

  Years, Laughing, Bars

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• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

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  Fashion, Art, Book

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• We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

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  Two, Events, Three

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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.

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  Horse, Riding, Equestrian

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, edition.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

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  Horse, Ideas, Degrees

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

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  Thinking, Evil, Deregulation

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

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  Philosophy, Order, People

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, Interesting, House

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

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  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

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  Children, Self, Anxiety

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from May 29, 2011

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• People with good intentions never give up!

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  Giving Up, People, Good Intentions

  Jane Smiley (2010). “Duplicate Keys”, p.290, Anchor

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