All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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