Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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