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.
CARSON MCCULLERSI must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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