The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSWherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Next to music beer was best.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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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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