I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt 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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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 look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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