Kay Boyle Quotes

• 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 Boyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Importance

  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.

  Kay Boyle

  Acceptance, Speaks Out, Decision

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• Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

  Kay Boyle

  Jewels, Soul, Body

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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

  Two, Giving, Different

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• You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

  Kay Boyle

  Memories, Ruins, Chaos

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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.

  Kay Boyle

  Country, Memories, Spring

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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.

  Kay Boyle

  Mother, Witty, Childhood

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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Drinking, Alcoholism, Deceiver

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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.

  Kay Boyle

  Duty, Difficult, Performing

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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 Boyle

  Taken, Religion, Church

  Kay Boyle, Sandra Whipple Spanier (1988). “Life Being the Best & Other Stories”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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