There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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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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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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