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Being A Burden Quotes

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
- Jeremy Collier

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.
- Quentin Crisp

Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
- Flannery O Connor

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