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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWriting, for me, is a search for God.
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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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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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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 run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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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 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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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