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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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They are the we of me.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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