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.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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