Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Owing 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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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