I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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