Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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