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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Carson McCullers

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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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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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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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