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Quote by Joyce Maynard
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking abou

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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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. – Joyce Maynard

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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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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. – Joyce Maynard

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. – Sigmund Freud

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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. – Ram Dass

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Ive learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. Its therapy. – Erykah Badu

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A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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Fear is stupid. So are regrets. – Marilyn Monroe

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