I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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