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“You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.”

Quote by Josephine Winslow Johnson

Book:The Inland Island

Work

The Inland Island

The story unfolds on a remote island, where a group of individuals find themselves isolated from the outside world. The novel delves into the psychological and emotional dynamics of the characters as they navigate their new environment and uncover the island's secrets. more

Author

Josephine Winslow Johnson

Josephine Winslow Johnson was an American novelist born on June 20, 1910, and died on February 27, 1990. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound insights into the life of the American South. more

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“The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.”

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

People Littles Long Eye Age Born Sleep Cold Skins Circles Naked Old Age Noses Wet Shells Curves Old People Frogs Turtles Reptiles Tortoises Beaks Sagging Cold Eyes

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Knows Men World Needs Stills Young Fall Talking Power Land Dying Goes On Roots Weight Miles Old Man New World Flags Falling Down Sentimentality Preconceptions Venomous Flailing

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.”

Taste Cost Bitter Sweat Salt Bitter Taste

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“And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.”

Years Heart Time Hours Minutes Seasons Blessed Intuition Invisible Rhythm Clock Immense Timing

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.”

“I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.”

Years War Generations Sick Paid Fifty My Generation

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.”

Sometimes Pain Lying Pleasure Fields Expression Advantage Mirrors Privilege

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.”

Values Teach Rights Tree Solitude Hills Nobility Singularity Legal Rights

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.”

Important Increase Phenomenon

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