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?
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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They are the we of me.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Next to music beer was best.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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