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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Carson McCullers

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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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