Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSDoctors, 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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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 know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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They are the we of me.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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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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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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