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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

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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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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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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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