Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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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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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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