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Diane Johnson Quotes: Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
         

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.


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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.



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...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?



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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.



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