Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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They are the we of me.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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