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Jean Stafford [1915-1979] American
Rank: 112
Writer, Short story writer


Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

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You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. Hope
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Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
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A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
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From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
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I am growing meaner by the hour.
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He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.
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For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
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