We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSImagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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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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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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 think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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