The writer must hew the phantom rock.
CARSON MCCULLERSI’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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They are the we of me.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Day 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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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