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.
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 better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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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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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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.
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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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