I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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