You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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