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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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