I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
CARSON MCCULLERSHis own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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