The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
CARSON MCCULLERSHis own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Next to music beer was best.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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