There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSI have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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