“Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Then come back.
Don't worry. You won't have lost time. Your energy will be more direct and less wasted.”

Essay, "The Goody Two-Shoes Nature". p.140
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

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