The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
CARSON MCCULLERSThere are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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