Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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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 writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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