There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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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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