A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor 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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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