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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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