Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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