I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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Next to music beer was best.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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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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