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.
CARSON MCCULLERSDeath is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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