Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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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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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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