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One Quotes by Joyce Maynard
- I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty…
- I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
- The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
- Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother…
- I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought,…
- Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
- The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
- One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
- I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to…
- Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster