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 MCCULLERS
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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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.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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