The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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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 whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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