"Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-- Holding and having its brief exultation-- Making its lonesome and low lamentation-- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone."

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Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.180

Alice Cary

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.”
“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
“You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.”
“When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.”
“I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.”
“I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.”

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“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
“The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.”

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