"People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me."

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Source : Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

Pam Houston

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Layers Quotes

“I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.”
“The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”
“I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.”
“To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.”
“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”
“...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.”
“When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.”
“...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?”

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