Kay Boyle quotes
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“There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.”
-- Kay BoyleSource : Kay Boyle (1992). “Fifty Stories”, p.64, New Directions Publishing
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“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”
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“Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.”
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“whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.”
-- Kay BoyleSource : Kay Boyle, Sandra Whipple Spanier (1988). “Life Being the Best & Other Stories”, p.113, New Directions Publishing
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“Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.”
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“Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.”
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“I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”
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“You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.”
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“Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul”
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“Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.”
-- Kay Boyle
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