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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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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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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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