Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERSAfter 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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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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 value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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They are the we of me.
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