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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?

Carson McCullers

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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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´m a stranger in a strange land.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Born Familiar Foreign Strange Urge
Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Applies Doctor Loathe Solely Word Yourself
Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Brave Cause Experience Lover Only Pain Possible Relation
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 stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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