Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt 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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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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 is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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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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