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Top 200 Jane Smiley Quotes (2024 Update)
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Jane Smiley Quote: “Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine. The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world’s details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me. Maybe another way of saying it is that I forgot I was still alive.”

201. “Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine. The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world’s details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me. Maybe another way of saying it is that I forgot I was still alive.”

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Jane Smiley Quote: “Solidarity is the most important thing. The bosses and the bankers have it. We have to have it, too.”

202. “Solidarity is the most important thing. The bosses and the bankers have it. We have to have it, too.”

— Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley Quote: “Opa used to tease her. He would open her mouth and look at her teeth, like she was a horse. Then he would say, ‘Callie, you are more than ten and less than a hundred.’ Well, she was a poor girl, in the end.”

203. “Opa used to tease her. He would open her mouth and look at her teeth, like she was a horse. Then he would say, ‘Callie, you are more than ten and less than a hundred.’ Well, she was a poor girl, in the end.”

— Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley Quote: “Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man’s table, or the child from a woman’s breast, or the wife from a man’s bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever.”

204. “Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man’s table, or the child from a woman’s breast, or the wife from a man’s bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever.”

— Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley Quote: “This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.”

205. “This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.”

— Jane Smiley

Quotes About Books And Reading

Quotes About Books And Reading

Quotes About Writing

Quotes About Writing

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

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Quotes About Books And Reading

Quotes About Books And Reading

Quotes About Writing

Quotes About Writing

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Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

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Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

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Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

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Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

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Inspirational Quotes

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