"I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants."

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Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

Carolyn Parkhurst

#Want Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Feels Quotes

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”
“I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.”
“I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.”
“I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.”
“I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.”
“She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.”
“I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.”
“I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.”

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