And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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