The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
CARSON MCCULLERSPeople, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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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 run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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