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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?

Carson McCullers

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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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 must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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