This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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They are the we of me.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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