Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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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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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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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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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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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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