The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
CARSON MCCULLERSI want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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 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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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