We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERSBecause 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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