Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERSAs often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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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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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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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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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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