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The writer must hew the phantom rock.

Carson McCullers

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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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Come Detail Know Lot Real Something Store
The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As Homesick Known never Often Place
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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Fel Different Maybe Thing Understanding Way Word Write
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Been Just Long Time Trouble
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Beautiful Either Front Look Mirror One Other Stood Time Finally
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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Bridge Lead Love Paradox Personal Sense
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Alone Meant Understand Without

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