The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSA seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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