I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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They are the we of me.
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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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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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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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