This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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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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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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?
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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