She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
CARSON MCCULLERSthe way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Next to music beer was best.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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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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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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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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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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They are the we of me.
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