The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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