I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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