Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
CARSON MCCULLERS
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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They are the we of me.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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