I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
CARSON MCCULLERSIf you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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