Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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Next to music beer was best.
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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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They are the we of me.
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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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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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 have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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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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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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