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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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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