I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSI am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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