Top 6 Joan Acocella Quotes

#1. What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.

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#2. Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

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#3. The virtue of a piece is the writer's thoughts.

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#4. Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.

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#5. Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.

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#6. Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

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