But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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 beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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.
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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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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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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 want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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