“Never let the sun go down on an argument.”
Claire Messud
more infosource: The Woman Upstairs (New York: Knopf, 2013), 49.
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category: argument, fight, resolution
medium: Fiction
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck
more infosource: Sweet Thursday (New York: Penguin, 2008), 107.
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category: problem, resolution, sleep
medium: Fiction
“One of my resolutions for the year is to learn how to identify more of the trees and flowers where I live. Of course, once you learn the names of trees and flowers, you want to know their personal histories as well—so I have a great pile of botanical guidebooks growing on my bedside table already.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
more infosource: “Inside the List,” by Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times, December 24, 2010.
category: flower, nature, resolution, tree
medium: newspaper article
“Birthday resolution: From now on specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine parts of you which are like everybody else at the expense of the one which is unique.”
Cyril Connolly
more infosource: The Unquiet Grave (New York: Persea Books, 1981), 95.
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category: birthday, individuality, resolution, self, specialize
medium: nonfiction
notes: Ernest Hemingway described The Unquiet Grave as “a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”
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