We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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