Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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