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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Carson McCullers

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes
I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Come Complete Follow Little Myself Piece Run
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Accomplish Art Author Bustling Dimension Illumination Progressive Realize Seldom Silence Until Work
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Blinder Past Sideway Think Time Wear
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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Anything Day Druge Else Left Much Night Soul Struggle Thrown Work
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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Fall First Love Meditate Men Realize Reason Start With Women Wrong
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Land Strange
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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After Come Hour Illumination Keep Phenomena Ready Search Soul Source Yet
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Behind Dead Left Soul Truly
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Destroy Individual Inevitably Make Nation Only Reject War Xenophobic
Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Compassion Generator Good Love Main Passion Thing Together Welded Writing
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Determine Himself Love Lover Quality Solely Value
The 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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Conscious Courage Dreamer Great Humility Imagine Love Must Nature Profession Writer
Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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Another Even Individual Love Nature Open Personality Poetry Relation Respond Way Write

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