I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSI live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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 have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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 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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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 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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