I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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