The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhat 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.
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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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