Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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 am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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