The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe writer must hew the phantom rock.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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