The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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