Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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 writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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.
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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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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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