To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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They are the we of me.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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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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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 am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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