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.
CARSON MCCULLERSthe way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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 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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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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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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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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