Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSTo know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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