Writing, for me, is a search for God.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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