The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSDay 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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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Next to music beer was best.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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