It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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 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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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 human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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