The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe 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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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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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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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