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Nancy Hale
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“The ultimate egocentricity of guilt.”
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“It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.”
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“Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.”
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“Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.”
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“... one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.”
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“In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.”
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“To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.”
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“The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.”
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“If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.”
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“We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.”
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“The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.”
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“Malicious gossip ... takes the place of creation in noncreative lives ...”
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“... what man can imagine he may one day achieve.”
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“... imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.”
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“After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been ... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.”
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“The more specific you are, the more universal you are.”
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“... this mysterious thing, artistic talent: the key to so much freedom, the escape from so much suffering.”
Nancy Hale, U.S. writer
(1908 - 1989)