The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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 thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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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.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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