Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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