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.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor 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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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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