Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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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 once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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 am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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