The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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 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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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