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.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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