Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I 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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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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