I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSTo know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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They are the we of me.
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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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