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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

Carson McCullers

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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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