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Lynn Johnston Quotes & Sayings

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30 entries tagged including 6 subtopics.
Last updated Dec 2023

Lynn Johnston Topics

Ugliness
Funny
Sleep
Abuse
Emotional Abuse

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You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a...very brutal disciplinarian.

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Emotional Abuse quotes

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Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.

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You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

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You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

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Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

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My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

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It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

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Ugliness quotes

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about s.., I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

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I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

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I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

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