The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
CARSON MCCULLERS
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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