Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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 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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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They are the we of me.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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