I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSNext to music beer was best.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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