The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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 value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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