This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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