Carson McCullers: "Siang dan malam dia berjuang keras dan berjuang dan...

"Siang dan malam dia berjuang keras dan berjuang dan melemparkan jiwanya ke dalam pekerjaannya, dan tidak banyak yang tersisa untuk hal lain. Sebagai manusia, dia menderita kekurangan ini dan melakukan apa yang dia bisa untuk menebusnya. Jika dia melewati malam itu membungkuk di atas meja di perpustakaan dan kemudian menyatakan bahwa dia telah menghabiskan waktu bermain kartu, seolah-olah dia berhasil melakukan kedua hal itu. Melalui kebohongan, dia hidup sebagai wakil. Kebohongan menggandakan keberadaannya yang tersisa dari pekerjaan dan menambah akhir kehidupan pribadinya."

--- Carson McCullers

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.