The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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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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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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