The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Next to music beer was best.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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