The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThey are the we of me.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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They are the we of me.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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