"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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"When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?“
-Jane Smiley
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"English majors understand human nature better than economists do."
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"There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox."
-Jane Smiley
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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."
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"When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely."
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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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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
-George A. Moore
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
-Babe Ruth
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
-Robert Frost
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
-William Ellery Channing
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
-Edward R. Murrow
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
-Billy Graham
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