But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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They are the we of me.
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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 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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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