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.
CARSON MCCULLERSImagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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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.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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