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.
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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Nothing 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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