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.
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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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 bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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