Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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They are the we of me.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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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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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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