There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSFor fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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They are the we of me.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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