"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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Source : Joyce Johnson (1990). “Minor Characters”, Washington Square Pr

Joyce Johnson

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“You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.”
“A word only writes Its night and rides Its dream.”
“No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.”
“A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavors. The smells. They just jump out at me. I can taste with a hundred screaming kids in a room. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.”

Source : "Vintage year? Not till the Nose says so". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. Novemebr 19, 2000.
“The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.”

Source : Quoted in Albert J. Beveridge, Life of John Marshall (1919)
“"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."”
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
“I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.”

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