I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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They are the we of me.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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