"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."

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Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Louise Bogan

#Struggle Quotes #Squares Quotes #Competition Quotes

“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.”
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
“We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.”
“Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.”
“A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.”

Source : Harry Mulisch (2011). “The Assault”, p.43, Pantheon
“I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.”

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