There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe 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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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