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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carson McCullers

I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Anymore Country Dare Friend Fright Most People Person Story Sunk Write Wrote
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Being Care Close Else Someone Thing
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Bourbon Drink First Master Morning Musical Nothing Pour Sound Sunday
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way
I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Could Know Real Think Want
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Each Other Event Almost Happen Know never People See
Next to music beer was best.
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Beer Best Music Next
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Country Death Game Great People Sleeve Trick
Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Applies Doctor Loathe Solely Word Yourself
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Beloved Come Country Different Lover
Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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Affirmation Cast Communication Contentment Courage Fear Love Motivate Response Security Sense Togetherness Wider
The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Being Beloved Curt Deep Intolearte Many Secret Truth Way
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Bad Blankness Could Even Few Her Hut Last Must Left Note Remember She Symphony
You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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All Around Bust Day Enough Excitement Loose Lost Peace Ruin Some Something Traipse Work
Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Argument Existence Left Life Little Personal Vicariously
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Broden Cause Cold Ecstasy Fright Heart Listen Music

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