The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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 memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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