A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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