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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.

Carson McCullers

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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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