For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
CARSON MCCULLERSDeath is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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