When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSI have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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