The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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