Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERSI want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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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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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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