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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Next to music beer was best.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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 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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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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