There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERS
To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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They are the we of me.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Next to music beer was best.
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