The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe 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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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone 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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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