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.
CARSON MCCULLERSHow can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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