Top 14 Joyce Johnson Quotes
#1. I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him
they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
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#2. We tend to make up the people we fall in love with
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#3. Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.
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#4. You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.
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#5. Still, I wouldn't have turned back if given the choice. At twenty-one, I felt I had gone to the bottom and floated up; I had the lightness of feeling there was nothing left to lose...
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#6. I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
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#7. And isn't it amazing that suicide is illegal when society is so indifferent to human life?
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#8. Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.
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#10. Media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.
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#11. I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
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#12. I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.
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#13. Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.
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#14. If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
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