Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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