She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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