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 MCCULLERSThis 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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