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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.

Carson McCullers

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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Any Climb Come Down Hardest Part
Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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They are the we of me.
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Me They We
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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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