We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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 thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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