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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.

Carson McCullers

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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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 trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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They are the we of me.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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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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