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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Carson McCullers

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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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Broden Cause Cold Ecstasy Fright Heart Listen Music
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Church Done Him Jesus Look Made Thousand Two What Year
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Area Childhood Darkness Light Memories Shut Space Stranger
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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Cram Fall Go House Kind Loud Music Out People Place Private Sing Some Too Wish
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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Age Ask Cast Charitable Fear Go Haunt Honest Question Together
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Being Care Close Else Someone Thing
You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Come Detail Know Lot Real Something Store
I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Come Complete Follow Little Myself Piece Run
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Alone Author Great Live Once Torture
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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Author Chain Come Creation Episode Fear From Chance Horror Life One Small Start Work
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Color Convolution Design Distilled Drawn Experience Intellect Mind Richer Sense Tapestry Woven
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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Affirmation Cast Communication Contentment Courage Fear Love Motivate Response Security Sense Togetherness Wider
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Beloved Come Country Different Lover
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As Homesick Known never Often Place
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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Children Consciousness Little Must Self Truth
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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Begin Come Flash Heart Hunter Illumination Lonely Long Phenomenon Ready Religious Search Soul Such Truth
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Homesick Known Most never Place
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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After Come Hour Illumination Keep Phenomena Ready Search Soul Source Yet
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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Been Just Long Time Trouble
There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Address Aware Book Existence Human Improvision Make Nothing Song Unfinish
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Chimera Delusion Equal Flat Itself Justice Measure Situation Yardstick
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
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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Basket Bottle Corruption Fruit Grape Look Loss Meanness Product Profit Room Wine
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Land Strange
All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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All Belong Except Loneliness Me People Too
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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Are Change Hand Milly Overnight People Profitable Something Taken They Unless Very While Willy Worth

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