"Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box."

-- Kelley Armstrong

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Boxes Quotes

“How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.”
“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”
“Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.”

Source : Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield
“When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.”
“I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.”
“I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.”
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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