Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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