"I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have."

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Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jane Hamilton

#Ingredients Quotes #Feels Quotes #Persons Quotes

“my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.”
“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.24, Carolrhoda Lab ™
“Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.”
“Speech isn't for agony.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.76, Open Road Media
“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”
“I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.”
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
“If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.”

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