Georgia OKeeffeI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way. In the 1940s, a child named Anaïs Nin, who lived in France during World War II, was forced to go into hiding from the Nazis. She lived by a strict set of rules: She’d never leave her room without first closing all the doors and windows. She’d never let a male stranger into her house.
And she’d never speak to another person without first revealing her true identity as a writer. In this quote, Anaïs talks about how she used her imagination to write about people and places that she was unable to find words for in real life.
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