All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERSIn 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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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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