It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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