Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERSI live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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