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.
CARSON MCCULLERSWriting, for me, is a search for God.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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