I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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