It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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