The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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