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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with 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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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They are the we of me.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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