I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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 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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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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 a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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