There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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