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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#crucial #experience #giving #giving up #known

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. ↗

— Willie Mays

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My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

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. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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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. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#been #business #forever #men #our

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#architecture #art #autonomy #because #cannot