I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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They are the we of me.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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