The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSAll we can do is go around telling the truth.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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