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Joyce Johnson
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“Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all — as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.”
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“I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.”
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“Nothing ever happened except God.”
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“Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works. ”
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“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.”
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“... media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”
Joyce Johnson, U.S. writer
(1935)
Full name: Joyce Glassman Johnson.