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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.

Carson McCullers

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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Event Almost Know never See
Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Being Card Evening Manage Over Pass Suffer Table Thing
I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Anymore Dare Friend Fright Most Sunk Write Wrote
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Been Just Long
The world is certainty a sudden place.

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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Certainty Sudden
The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.

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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Dreamer Write
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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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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Either Front One Other Stood Time Finally
The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Child Nody Ordinary Peach Shrink Swell Thing Until
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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Bourbon Drink First Musical Nothing Pour Sunday
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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First Like Stillness
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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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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Paradox
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 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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Accomplish Author Bustling Illumination Progressive Seldom Until
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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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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Around Feel Much Nothing Seem Thing Time Value Tried
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Meant Without
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Beloved
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Best Think

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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