But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSA most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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