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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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 have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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.
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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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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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