I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERSThrough the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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