We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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They are the we of me.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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