Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 writer must hew the phantom rock.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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They are the we of me.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Next to music beer was best.
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