I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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