Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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 was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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