Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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They are the we of me.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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