We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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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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