The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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