it's funny how these things find you

last night, as i was reading in bed, i came across the following statements. it's a perfect summation of how i feel about my life right now. it is funny how these things find you when you're least expecting them.

"Carson [McCullers] had expressed it herself in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: 'All of us here know what it is to suffer for real need. That is a great injustice. But there is one injustice bitterer even than that -- to be denied the right to work according to one's ability. To labor a lifetime uselessly. To be denied the chance to serve. It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls.'"

From the book February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins