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.
CARSON MCCULLERSPeople, 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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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