Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERS
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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The 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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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