The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSImagination takes humility, love and great courage.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Next to music beer was best.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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!
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