I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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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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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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