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Quote by Frances Gray Patton

“empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.”

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Frances Gray Patton was an American short story writer, born on March 19, 1906, and passed away on March 28, 2000. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”

Needs Mind Humans May Age Lasts Differences Cases Habit Roots Busy Human Mind Contrast Observing Monotony Old Habits

Author:Maren Elwood

“Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.”

Mind Firsts Two Character Reader Pages Printed Fictional Character

Author:Maren Elwood

“plot is character in action.”

Character Action Plot

Author:Maren Elwood

“Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.”

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.”

Soul Suffering Causes Poor Machines Release Wretched

Book:The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.”

Horse Cures

Book:The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

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