Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
CARSON MCCULLERSAs often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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