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.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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