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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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They are the we of me.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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