The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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They are the we of me.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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 we can do is go around telling the truth.
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