Next to music beer was best.
CARSON MCCULLERSI once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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 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 must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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She 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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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