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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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 torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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