How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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