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 MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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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.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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