It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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