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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Carson McCullers

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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
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 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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Do Does Know Make Other Person Understand
As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As Homesick Known never Often Place
The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Any Climb Come Down Hardest Part
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Land Strange
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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