All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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