Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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