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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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