But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSNext to music beer was best.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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They are the we of me.
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