"Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name."

-- Mary Karr

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“It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.”

Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library
“Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.”
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

Source : In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76
“I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.”
“when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.”
“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
“I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.”
“The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.”

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