But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSOwing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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People, 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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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