She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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They are the we of me.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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