I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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