When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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 dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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