"I like to talk. Talking is kind of……" — Maureen Johnson
"I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw."
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170 Quotes by Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson has 170 quotes on this site.
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English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
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Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be…
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But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to…
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Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for…
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Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry…
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A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
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Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it…
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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked…
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Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really.…
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My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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