I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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’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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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 think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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All 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 are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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