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Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
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A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.'
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The essence of charity... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Born:
September 26, 1949
(age 74)
Bio:
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres.
Known for:
Some Luck (2014)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
The Greenlanders (1988)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Early Warning (2015)
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