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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Carson McCullers

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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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