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“Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
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“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Enough Rope
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
― Enough Rope
“I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen."
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]”
― Constant Reader: 2
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]”
― Constant Reader: 2
Joy’s 2025 Year in Books
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