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

— Willie Mays

#born #i #i was born #maybe #play

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

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

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

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#drawn #lovingly #parents #portrait

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#part #silence #story #tell #wanted

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#childhood #ease #forgotten #joy #like

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