The world is certainty a sudden place.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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