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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.

Carson McCullers

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Are Change Hand Milly Overnight People Profitable Something Taken They Unless Very While Willy Worth
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Artificial Estrange Lonely Long Love More Natural Right Social Southern Spiritual System Think
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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Children Consciousness Little Must Self Truth
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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Begin Come Flash Heart Hunter Illumination Lonely Long Phenomenon Ready Religious Search Soul Such Truth
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Homesick Known Most never Place
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
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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Child Heart Nody Ordinary Peach Seed Shrink Swell Thing Until
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Always Cat Climb Tree Wrong
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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Another Even Individual Love Nature Open Personality Poetry Relation Respond Way Write
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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Fel Different Maybe Thing Understanding Way Word Write
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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Could Know Real Think Want
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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After Come Hour Illumination Keep Phenomena Ready Search Soul Source Yet
This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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Author Chain Come Creation Episode Fear From Chance Horror Life One Small Start Work
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way

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