When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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