The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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