There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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