"Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read."

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Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.59, Macmillan

Jincy Willett

#Unbearable Quotes

“You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.”
“... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.”
“Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.”

Source : DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”
“A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.”
“There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.”
“You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts.”
“We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.”
“Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .”

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