the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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