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.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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 have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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And 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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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