I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSThrough 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.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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This 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.
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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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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.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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