Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERS
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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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