Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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