To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERSA most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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 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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