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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.

Carson McCullers

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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Frame Jail Jesus Live Today
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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Do Does Know Make Other Person Understand
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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All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes
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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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