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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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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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