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Jane Smiley

Date of Birth:

26-Sep-1949

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United States

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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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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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The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
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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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In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
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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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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
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A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
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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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