the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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