Joyce Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Girl #Boys #Age
What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Boys #Night #Class
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his â€œroad,â€ the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Stories #Fuel #Body
Nothing ever happened except God.
-- Joyce Johnson
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

#Art #Media #Degrees
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Believe #Miracle #Catholic
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.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Girl #Nice #Home
Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Artist #Legends
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Struggle #Order #Optimism
We tend to make up the people we fall in love with
-- Joyce Johnson

#Falling In Love #Fall #People
I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Saving
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Passages #Keep Going

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