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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

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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Bare Beloved Best Forever Hate Lover Reason Strip Try
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Difference Less Lonely Look Make People Think
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Atre Come From Know Place Who You
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Chair Diddling Doctor Dreadful God Hand Look Stretch Table Thing Undress Wash Window
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Desire Herat Hunter Loney Only
If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Around Feel Much Nothing Seem Sweat Thing Time Value Tried Work
Next to music beer was best.
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Beer Best Music Next
The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Conscious Dream Dreamer Nature Write
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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Endless Fluid Glimpse Human Humanity Illumination Passage Radiance Saw Struggle Swift Time Valor
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Been Before Each never Other Thing Walk
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Agree Also Call Colour Green Same See Tree
I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Come Complete Follow Little Myself Piece Run
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.
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All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes

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