It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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 have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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