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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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