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Knitting Without Tears (1971)
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Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
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Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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Born:
August 9, 1910
Died:
November 30, 1999
(aged 89)
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