And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe world is certainty a sudden place.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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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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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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