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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

Carson McCullers

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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Beloved Come Country Different Lover
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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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Addition Been Come Equality Found Freedom Individual Principle Start True
Southerners 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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Difference Less Lonely Look Make People Think
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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