I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe 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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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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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