Epic Steam is easily offended. He has high standards of behavior with regard to his own person, and every human he has met so far has offended them. Other horses aren’t so bad – they have been capable of learning, and so they don’t offend him, and he isn’t mean with them, only bossy. It’s the people who are blind and stubborn.

— Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley Quotes

What Is Really Going On in Spain? was another. Who’s the Boss? was about whether members of the.

— Jane Smiley

Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Jane Smiley

Margret saw that this is how it is that folk are made to desire what they know they should not have, they are made to wait for it, so that when it comes, no matter how dark and full of sin and repellent it is, they are glad enough to welcome it.

— Jane Smiley

You don’t make ’em trot for one thing and run for the other.

— Jane Smiley

The pastor boomed out again: “My friends, who can say where it will end? Who can say when the Lord will at last be pleased with us?

— Jane Smiley

A Jack Russell was about making noise, killing small animals and dragging their carcasses into the house, attacking much larger dogs, refusing to be house-trained, and in all other ways living a primitive life.

— Jane Smiley

Actually, she often wondered whether cleanliness drove love away. Fastidious, she suspected that life itself was to be found in dirt and disorder, in unknown dark substances that she was hesitant to touch.

— Jane Smiley

Teeth outlast everything. Death is nothing to a tooth. Hundreds of years in acidic soil just keeps a tooth clean. A fire that burns away hair and flesh and even bone leaves teeth dazzling like daisies in the ashes. Life is what destroys teeth.

— Jane Smiley

I will never see her, hard as I try to look past love. My eyes will always cast a light over her, and I will always think that this love, mine for her, is a dear thing. But it is as common as sand, as common as flesh.

— Jane Smiley

Curiosity in humans is to be punished – it leads to disaster.

— Jane Smiley

Farmers’ Holiday Association.

— Jane Smiley

Epic Steam is easily offended. He has high standards of behavior with regard to his own person, and every human he has met so far has offended them. Other horses aren’t so bad – they have been capable of learning, and so they don’t offend him, and he isn’t mean with them, only bossy. It’s the people who are blind and stubborn.

— Jane Smiley

I’m sorry. I would have to disagree. The most important thing is getting right with the Lord, and then he.

— Jane Smiley

Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.

— Jane Smiley

She knows what she wants, though maybe she doesn’t know what will work. But if you don’t give her what she wants, she’ll spend the rest of her life thinking that that was the one thing that might have worked.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Jane Smiley

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

Some days they would talk all morning about exactly how warm Heaven might be. It could not be warm enough so that souls went naked, or could it? If souls went naked, then why all the weaving, and if there was no weaving then how did souls occupy themselves?

— Jane Smiley

Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who’ve really faced the facts.

— Jane Smiley
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