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 MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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