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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carson McCullers

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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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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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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