Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERS
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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