Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
CARSON MCCULLERS
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Paradox
Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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!
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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