Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERSthe way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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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They are the we of me.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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