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.
CARSON MCCULLERSAfter the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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