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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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