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The Good Husband QUOTES

The Good Husband QUOTES

1 " When Yeats was in Paris visiting Maud Gonne in 1909-- he was forty-four-- he wrote in his journal that he had just realized Maud 'never really understands my plans, or nature, or ideas.'
Never really understands my plans! Or my nature! Or my ideas! Now, that's a lot for somebody you have been in love with for twenty years not to understand about you.
Could you stay in love with someone for twenty years, when that person does not, or cannot, understand your plans, your nature, or your ideas?
Of course you could. Particularly if you happened to be a poet. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband

2 " We can’t be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband

3 " Once you get yourself out of the way, you can see everything the way it is. Your self isn’t blocking the world from you, once you have sidestepped its shadow. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband

4 " There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband

5 " There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband

6 " What we feel compelled to do, whether it’s making art or giving your life to God, evolves out of the inner fabric of our lives, however disguised the patterns may be to us. The work, the vocation, is an attempt on the part of the would-be artist to fulfill in an inner way, in a symbolic way, what the outer world is failing to provide him with in the service of wholeness. "

― Gail Godwin , The Good Husband