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Carson Mccullers Inspirational Quotes (63)

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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.
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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 Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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