The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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 want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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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 bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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