May Sarton: Person

May Sarton was American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Explore interesting quotes on person.
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“I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.”

May Sarton

Source: Journal of a Solitude

Feeling , Personality

“Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.”

May Sarton

Source: Journal of a Solitude

Past , Personality

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

May Sarton

Source: Journal of a Solitude

People , Effort , Time , Personality

“At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.”

May Sarton
Truth , Fear , Personality