There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
CARSON MCCULLERSDay and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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