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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Book by Jane Smiley · 4 quotes · Horse, Stories, Adventure

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“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.”

“I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.”