Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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They are the we of me.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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