the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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