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.
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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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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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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