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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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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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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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But 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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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