I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSOnce you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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