I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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