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Writer Alice Walker on the discomfort of growth:
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the proc... See more
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the proc... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
Michelle Laughran
@misciel
Melissa did not want Ria and Blake to grow up with this sound, to develop the hardness that enabled you to become insensitive to it. She wanted them to live somewhere calmer, somewhere greener, somewhere the emergency services were less busy, so that they in turn could be calm, and keep the purity of themselves.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Squeaky Clean
blackwells.co.uk
Evelyn Dravis
@evelyndravis
The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
newyorker.com
