“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.”
— Jane Smiley
Author: Jane Smiley
Category: power
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“In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.”
— Jane Smiley
Author: Jane Smiley
Category: marriage
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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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Category: death
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“Respect and fear are two different things.”
— Jane Smiley
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“Respect and fear are two different things.”
— Jane Smiley
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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.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: family
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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.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: wisdom
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“I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: war
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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.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: money
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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.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: experience
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“I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.”
— Jane Smiley
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Category: future
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