In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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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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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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