The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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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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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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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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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