Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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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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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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