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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 got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Child Country Live Man No Plenty Rich Spare Want Woman World
We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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God Me Search Write
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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Being Free Given Human Life Pay Put Value Without Worth
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As Homesick Known never Often Place
You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Come Detail Know Lot Real Something Store
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Bang Better Could Jail See Wall
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way
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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Homesick Known Most never Place
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Frame Jail Jesus Live Today
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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