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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.

Carson McCullers

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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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