Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, 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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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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