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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

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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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Anything Day Druge Else Left Much Night Soul Struggle Thrown Work
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Atre Come From Know Place Who You
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Accomplish Art Author Bustling Dimension Illumination Progressive Realize Seldom Silence Until Work
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Basket Bottle Corruption Fruit Grape Look Loss Meanness Product Profit Room Wine
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
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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Beginning Children Cruel Curious Delicate Group Heart Shape Small Twist World
Next to music beer was best.
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Beer Best Music Next
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Better Country God Hemingway Know More People Person
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way
Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Compassion Generator Good Love Main Passion Thing Together Welded Writing
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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God Me Search Write
Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Applies Doctor Loathe Solely Word Yourself
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Country Dark Daytime Feel Herself Hot Night People Plan Sun Walk
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Beat Enough Hurt Listen Rabbit Symphony Terrible Whole World
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Land Strange
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
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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Each Other Event Almost Happen Know never People See
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Amidst Fragile Life Own Seem Support Wreckage Year
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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Before Everything Ferment Give Human Being Idea Men Personal Poison Some Time
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Always Cat Climb Tree Wrong
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Being Curt Deep Intolerable Love Many Secret State Truth
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Born Familiar Foreign Strange Urge
The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Between Develop Idea Labor Seed Struggle Them Unconcious
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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Conscious Courage Dreamer Great Humility Imagine Love Must Nature Profession Writer

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