We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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