Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSI 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 seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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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They are the we of me.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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 we can do is go around telling the truth.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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