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Joyce Maynard

"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

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"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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Donna Grant

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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Donna Grant

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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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."
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"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"I continued to protect him with my silence."
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"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
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"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."
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"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."
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