Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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 was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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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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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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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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