Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Carson McCullers

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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.

CARSON MCCULLERS

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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All Loneliest Seem Sometimes
Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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Candy Color Ever Fellow Other Piece Saddest Soft Sometimes Thing
The world is certainty a sudden place.

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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Certainty Sudden
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Either Front One Other Stood Time Finally
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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Fluid Glimpse Illumination Passage Radiance Saw Swift Valor
She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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Go Made Minute See Suddenly These Thing
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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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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Could Know Real Think
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Most Resentment
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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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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Address Aware Improvision Make Nothing Unfinish
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Best Think
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.

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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Familiar Urge
The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.

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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Dreamer Write
The writer must hew the phantom rock.

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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
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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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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Begin Flash Hunter Illumination Long Phenomenon Religious Such
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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Before Everything Ferment Give Human Being Idea Poison Some
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Author Once Torture

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