It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
CARSON MCCULLERSI’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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 live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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