The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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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.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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