Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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.
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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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