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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.

Carson McCullers

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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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Always Create Essential Keen Less Live Loneliness Made People
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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All Around Can Do Tell Truth
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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Do Does Know Make Other Person Understand
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Born Familiar Foreign Strange Urge
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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