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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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Columbus
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Lula Carson Smith
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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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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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
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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 theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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