There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I’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.
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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 see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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