We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERSI got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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