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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.

Carson McCullers

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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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