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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Carson McCullers

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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Essential Fall Love Matter Stand Thing World
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.
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Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
CARSON MCCULLERS

After Belong Come Establishment Found Identity Imperative Larger Lose never Sense Separateness Something
The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Answer Bewilder Emotional Hate Incertain Incertitude Only Racial Soul Understand
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 MCCULLERS

Child Country Live Man No Plenty Rich Spare Want Woman World
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Determine Himself Love Lover Quality Solely Value
You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Around Bust Day Enough Excitement Loose Lost Peace Ruin Some Something Traipse Work
Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bridge Lead Love Paradox Personal Sense
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bang Better Could Jail See Wall
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?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Agree Also Call Colour Green Same See Tree
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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All Around Can Do Tell Truth
This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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Arm Around Hard Leg Music Salt She Very
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Artificial Estrange Lonely Long Love More Natural Right Social Southern Spiritual System Think
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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Another Arm Comfort Desperate Find Fire Hunger Hunter Last Light Lonely Neon Some
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Alone Meant Understand Without

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