Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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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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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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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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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