I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSI’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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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