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.
CARSON MCCULLERS
Once 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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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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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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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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 bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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