Next to music beer was best.
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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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