And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll we can do is go around telling the truth.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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