Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSNothing 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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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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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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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’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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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