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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.

Carson McCullers

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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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Been Just Long Time Trouble
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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