She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSI was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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