I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Next to music beer was best.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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They are the we of me.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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