The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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 mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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