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Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

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Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all — as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

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I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

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If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.

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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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Born: September 27, 1935 (age 90)
Bio: Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac.
Known for:
  1. Minor Characters (1983)
  2. Door Wide Open (2002)
  3. Missing men (2004)
  4. Come and Join the Dance: A Novel (2014)

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