Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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 are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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