What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
CARSON MCCULLERSSoutherners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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