I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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