We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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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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 got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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