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Quote by Joyce Maynard
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the sto

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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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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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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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughters age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. – Joyce Maynard

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Age
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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, youre not alone. – Arthur C. Brooks

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alone

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. – Jules Renard

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alone

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called Rule Of The Bone. I didnt do a very good job. I didnt really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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alone

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. – Martin Luther

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alone

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If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? – Author unknown

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Homosexuality

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain havent been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. – Jaron Lanier

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Technology

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of Dallas. – Larry Hagman

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Success

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. – Muhammad Iqbal

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power