Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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 live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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