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Quote by Joyce Maynard
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confron

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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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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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

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Fear
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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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alone
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre

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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Id rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. – John Wooden

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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. – Francis Ford Coppola

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. Thats what critics cant put their finger on. – Billy Corgan

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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. – Christian Bale

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The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational. – Roger Mudd

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