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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. September 1935
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Joyce Johnson Quotes

“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”

Joyce Johnson

Source: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Love

“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.”

Joyce Johnson

Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Age , Girl , Boy , Learning

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