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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Carson McCullers

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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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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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They are the we of me.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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