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?
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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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