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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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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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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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