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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

Carson McCullers

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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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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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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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 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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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