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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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 have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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