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1 " Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself. "
― Joan Acocella , Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
2 " What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment. "
― Joan Acocella , Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
3 " Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood. "
― Joan Acocella
