Quote by Joyce Maynard
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. – Joyce Maynard

Other quotes by Joyce Maynard

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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Experience
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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – Joyce Maynard

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Experience
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More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – Ill put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. – Joyce Maynard

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Family
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. – Washington Irving

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Home

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… its just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. – Henrik Ibsen

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Home

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. – Theresa May

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Home

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

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Home

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I respect music, I do. I love it. – Youssou NDour

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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him. – Gustave Flaubert

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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. – Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

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Youve never lived until youve almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know. – Anon.

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