Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERSComing down was the hardest part of any climbing.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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 got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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