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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."

Jane Smiley on Beauty

More quotes about Beauty

  • "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

    Confucius on Beauty

  • "To love beauty is to see light."

    Victor Hugo on Beauty

  • "Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

    Amanda Peet on Beauty

  • "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

    Anne Roiphe on Beauty

  • "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

    Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Beauty

More quotes by Jane Smiley

  • "I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not."

  • "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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