the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
CARSON MCCULLERSHow can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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