Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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