Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
CARSON MCCULLERSFalling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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