Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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They are the we of me.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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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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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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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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