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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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