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

Other quotes by Joyce Maynard

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

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Home
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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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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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Other Quotes from
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Ive had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. Theyll tell you when theyre grumpy. Theyll tell you when theyre okay. – Dominic Monaghan

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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you cant teach people that – they have to learn by experience. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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Experience

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. – Jane Pauley

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Experience

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the governments purposes are beneficent. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Random Quotes

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesnt sound kosher. Because it isnt. – John Podhoretz

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Religion is a mixed blessing. – John Shelby Spong

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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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Dont tell me peace has broken out. – Bertolt Brecht

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