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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.

Carson McCullers

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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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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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