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> [We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/we-are-dying-of-preconceptions-outworn-rules-decaying-flags-venomous/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

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## More by Josephine Winslow Johnson

> [“And there was the inner walking on the edge of darkness, the peering into black doorways...the unrevealed answer which must be somewhere, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/and-there-was-the-inner-walking-on-the-edge-of-darkness-the-peering/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/everything-drops-away-comes-to-be-unimportant-in-the-dark-it-s-like/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/the-woods-seemed-all-answer-and-healing-and-more-than-enough-to-live/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/things-that-have-cost-more-than-they-re-worth-leave-a-bitter-taste-a/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/we-are-dying-of-preconceptions-outworn-rules-decaying-flags-venomous/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/the-dead-elm-leaves-hung-like-folded-bats/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/love-and-fear-increase-together-with-a-precision-almost-mathematical/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/there-is-a-time-to-be-born-and-born-again-free-of-accumulated/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [“There must be some reason, I thought, why we should go on year after year, with this lump of debt, scrailing earth down to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/there-must-be-some-reason-i-thought-why-we-should-go-on-year-after/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation. You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/i-like-to-pretend-that-the-years-alter-and-revalue-but-begin-to-see/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/lord-make-me-satisfied-with-small-things-make-me-content-to-live-on/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/in-mad-people-fear-goes-on-constantly-night-and-day-wearing-one-ditch/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/the-writer-s-advantage-in-some-respects-over-those-whose-expression/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/to-have-children-is-a-double-living-the-earthly-fountain-of-youth-a/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

> [I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/i-am-sick-of-war-every-woman-of-my-generation-is-sick-of-war-fifty/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

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