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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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 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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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