We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
CARSON MCCULLERSI live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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