A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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They are the we of me.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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