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.
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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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