Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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 must hew the phantom rock.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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