As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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 beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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