There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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 have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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They are the we of me.
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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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