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 MCCULLERSDeath is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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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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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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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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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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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