"From time to time, I need a rest……" — Jean Stafford
"From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect."
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8 Quotes by Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
- You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to…
- Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
- I am growing meaner by the hour.
- He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.
- For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
- For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.