All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
CARSON MCCULLERSTo 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!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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