After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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