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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Next to music beer was best.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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