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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.

Carson McCullers

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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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