Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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