Curtis Sittenfeld: Doing

Curtis Sittenfeld is Novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.”

Curtis Sittenfeld

Source: The Man of My Dreams

Feeling , Time

“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”

Curtis Sittenfeld

Source: The Man of My Dreams

Happiness

“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

Time , Waiting , Patience , Happiness

“As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep (2005), p. 9