There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
CARSON MCCULLERSResentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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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.
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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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