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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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 writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
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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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