But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Corporation Dollar Hundred People Eat Thousand
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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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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Before Everything Ferment Give Human Being Idea Poison Some
This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?

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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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Author Episode From Chance Horror One Small
The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Child Nody Ordinary Peach Shrink Swell Thing Until
When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?

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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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They are the we of me.

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They are the we of me.
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Me They We
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Are Hand Milly Overnight Profitable Something Taken They Unless Very While Willy
Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Being Card Evening Manage Over Pass Suffer Table Thing
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.

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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.
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Affirmation Cast Motivate Wider
A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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Between Go Them Uncoincuiious
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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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All Loneliest Seem Sometimes
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

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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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Keen Less Made
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Bang Could Jail See
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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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

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