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.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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They are the we of me.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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