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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.

Carson McCullers

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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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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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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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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