Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERS
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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