To 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!
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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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