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Quotes from A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley

born 1949 United States

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They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

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

A Thousand Acres (1991)

Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

We’re not going to be sad. We’re going to be angry until we die. It’s the only hope.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don’t, sort of puffs you up.

A Thousand Acres (1991)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Smiley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.