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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.

Carson McCullers

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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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