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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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