The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSDoctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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They are the we of me.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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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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