Jean Stafford Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Jean Stafford:

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#45a2594a

I am growing meaner by the hour.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#a796569e

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#ade739f0

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#37113139

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#5a97e000

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#4d37ff74

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#87b430b3

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
~Jean Stafford


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-stafford-quotes/#01f89487

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