I´m a stranger in a strange land.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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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 heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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