I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSComing down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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