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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

Carson McCullers

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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Being Care Close Else Someone Thing
To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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