They are the we of me.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou 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.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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